On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:07:05 +1100, "Jeff R."
wrote:

Parting indeed.
My last Machholz image: http://faxmentis.org/html/machholz5.html

(Don't get your hopes up - no tail...)

Short nights and high trees have conspired to make any further shots unlikely.

...and a question: What is the *actual* colour of the gas/ion/dust cloud?
Greenish or blueish?
Lacking RGB filters (and suffiecient patience) I can't make a definite
pronouncement.

The coma definitely shows a greenish tint, the gas (or ion) tail is
blueish and the dust tail that we have trouble seeing due to the earth
comet orientation, seems to have a yellowish tint. No style these
comets ;-)

Jeff R.
(in stinking-hot [39+C] Sydney)

You can go off people you know Jeff ;-)

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Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk