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19 July 2020 at 4:46 pm
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Robin Leadbeater
Participant
A spectrum of the emission lines from the comet tail.
It is very different to those of the coma usually seen in amateur spectra and is dominated by CO+ emission lines (the absolute intensity in the spectrum is only ~1% of that in the coma spectrum)
Cheers
Robin