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Article: <5f2se7$kcl@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Tholen Caught DOCTORING Hale-Bopp Images! - 1
Date: 27 Feb 1997 02:44:23 GMT
In article <5esv8c$nht@news.Hawaii.Edu> David Tholen
writes:
>> So .. where did the thumbnail impression come from?
>> If its not in the 3 FITS images,
>
> You're seeing the comet's curved tail, which appears
> preferentially toward the red end of the spectrum. The
> cometary features are in all the FITS images, with differing
> levels of intensity.
> tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
I'll have to go check it out. Seems odd that all these pictures of Hale-Bopp show a halo and short tail that are BRIGHT. Dr. David Rath's images at the detail pixtel level show this area entirely DARK, the thumbnail look-a-like thing. Humm.