Re: (meteorobs) Comet trails...

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Comet trails...
• From: Pierre Martin <p.martin@cyberusdot ca>
• Date: Wed, 22 Jul 98 02:06:20 -0400
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>Aside from the Iridium flare, I had another interesting observation:  David
>Chandler (makes "Deep Space" software) showed me his "comet trails".  His
>software lets you plot the current position of an object's orbit on the 
>sky (as
>opposed to the apparent path).  You can also hook up telescope encoders to 
>the
>software.  A while back he came up with the crazy idea of scanning along the
>comet orbits to see if you could locate the dust spread along the orbit.  He
>reported seeing broad (~1 degree) faintly illuminated paths across the sky. 
>
(snip)

Very intriguing!

This is certainly one thing I have never though of. 

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