CCD Image of NEAT's Tail with Fuzzy Stars?

I had a brief opportunity to shoot NEAT last night with my ST-7E CCD camera. It was a
one minute exposure and the focus seemed good. Some of the brighter stars were round
and well lit. However, several in the tail appeared fuzzy and frazzled. Is this a
result of looking through the tail or maybe too short an exposure? I was using 1x
binning.
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Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet, Nevada City, CA)
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W. Watson wrote:

I had a brief opportunity to shoot NEAT last night with my ST-7E CCD
camera. It was a one minute exposure and the focus seemed good. Some of
the brighter stars were round and well lit. However, several in the tail
appeared fuzzy and frazzled. Is this a result of looking through the
tail or maybe too short an exposure? I was using 1x binning.
You can see the details at http://home.earthlink.net/~mtnv95959a/misc3.html. I
adjusted the brightness and contrast to make the fuzzy stars more obvious. The dark
subtracted image produced an image that was pleasing but hid the details of the
image. Possibly it was the conversion to jpg that did this.

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Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet, Nevada City, CA)
-- GMT-8 hr std. time, RJ Rcvr 39° 8' 0" N, 121° 1' 0" W

Your mother was right. Wear your hat and sunglasses in the summer sun.
This is especially true if you're older. -- NYT Science Section, May 2004

Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews
sierra_mtnview -at- earthlink -dot- net
Imaginarium Museum: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews/imaginarium.html