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IMAGES OF COMET D'ARREST

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Comet d'Arrest
August 2, 1995

This CCD image of 6P/d'Arrest was taken by Charles S. Morris and Steve Goldin on 1995 August 2.34 using the TIE 60cm f/3.5 telescope and a ST-6 CCD. Exposure was 40 seconds and the image is unfiltered and has been flat fielded.

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Comet d'Arrest
October 14, 1995

October 14th, 1995 from Kitt Peak Arizona. The Steward Observatory 90" f/9 RC Reflector was used to take this 120 second unfiltered and unprocessed CCD frame on a loral 2k x 2k chip binned 3x3. The exposure was started at 07:48:20 UT on October 14, 1995. The field of view is 5 x 5 arcminutes. False color was used to better bring out the coma and its shape.

Dave Harvey, Steward Observatory
University of Arizona
dharvey@as.arizona.edu

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Comet d'Arrest
November 17, 1995

This image of p/d'Arrest was obtained with a 12" Lx200 working at f/7. This is a 300 second exposure the ST6 camera. The exposure was taken on 11-17-95 at 02:19:27 UT. The image was taken by Tim Puckett from Villa Rica, Ga. USA

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