13P/Olbers 2024-Jun-27 Dan Bartlett

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What's Going On Here...Comet 13P/Olbers June 27 2024UT (RASA11 WideField)?
Now I'm imaging comet 13P/ Olbers with two setups causing a back log of nightly images to process. Here is the larger FOV shot with the RASA 11 and a full frame camera taken on the night of June 26 local. Interesting to see the cross-member section of the plasma tail again. Not sure what's going on here but I can't quite get my head around the 3D aspect of twisting comet tails.


Full Resolution:
https://astrob.in/1mtft2/B/

Backyard setup
scope: RASA 11 fl620mm D279mm
exposure: 34 x 60 sec
Seeing:1.5/5
Transparency 8/10
Observer: DEBartlett
Place: June Lake_California USA

Image Info (Processed ):
Projection ............... Gnomonic
Projection origin ........ [2185.911785 1403.971035] px -> [RA: 8 18 13.205 Dec: +42 52 45.30]
Resolution ............... 2.510 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. -3.013 deg
Reference system ......... ICRS
Observation start time ... 2024-06-27 05:06:59 UTC
Focal distance ........... 585.11 mm
Pixel size ............... 7.12 um
Field of view ............ 3d 2' 55.2" x 1d 57' 29.0"
Image center ............. RA: 8 18 13.205 Dec: +42 52 45.31 ex: +0.037938 px ey: -0.088516 px
Image bounds:
top-left .............. RA: 8 26 23.633 Dec: +43 55 17.08 ex: -1.120310 px ey: -1.027923 px
top-right ............. RA: 8 09 29.647 Dec: +43 45 09.52 ex: +0.092827 px ey: -1.087864 px
bottom-left ........... RA: 8 26 41.103 Dec: +41 57 57.78 ex: -1.578762 px ey: +1.002113 px
bottom-right .......... RA: 8 10 18.348 Dec: +41 48 02.20 ex: +0.184842 px ey: +2.174677 px