More Machholz (2005 Jan 05)

A similar image to yesterday's shot (well what did you expect ;-) )
but closer to the Pleiades. Hey - I don't know how much longer the
weather's going to allow me to keep tabs on it ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/comets/...5_18h44m-2.jpg

As a matter of interest, the ion tail is quite large - over 10 degrees
in size by my reckoning. It's not possible to bring a pretty image of
the full tail up using my images from last night - they fall too close
to the noise threshold of the base image. However, if you will excuse
the vulgar presentation, here's the 10+ degree tail...

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/comets/...z/longtail.jpg

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