[BAA Comets] Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) + 8 degree anti-tail

[Nick James]

Richard,

> Despite a nearly full moon in the sky, 20-minute stacked exposures were
> sufficient to trace the anti-tail to at least 8.0 degrees in length on 2013
> May 25.97, just 1 day before our line-of-sight crosses this comet's orbital
> plane.
>
> http://www.britastro.org/~rmiles/Images/C2011L4_20130525_Miles1.jpg

My image from the night of the plane crossing is here:

http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2011l4_20130526_2300_ndj.jpg

I have a load of 100mm, f/2 frames (8 x 12 deg FOV) to stack which will 
hopefully show something as well.

This comet continues to be fairly amazing...

Nick.