{"id":14195,"date":"2014-08-29T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14195"},"modified":"2014-08-28T21:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T07:19:49","slug":"the-tails-of-comet-c2014-e2-jacques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14195","title":{"rendered":"The Tails of Comet C\/2014 E2 Jacques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tails are faint!<\/p>\n<p>I have talked to a couple folks who have observed the comet in mid-sized telescopes, 14 and 24 inch, instruments.  One thing they note is the absence of any visual tails on this otherwise bright comet.  In processing the imagery from last night I can see the tails, but only in a very strong stretch of the data.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an inverted version of mostly the green channel.  Both the ion tail and dust tail are visible, but they are truly subtle.  The ion tail is visible as a streak going to the right in the image, quite thin and straight, extending well over three degrees.  The dust tail is visible as a wide are below the coma in this image.<\/p>\n<p>Still working to properly the process the full image, the data looks very good so far.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14196\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=14196\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14196\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/C2014E2jacquesInvert-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"C\/2014 E2jacques Inverted\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/C2014E2jacquesInvert-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/C2014E2jacquesInvert.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The faint tails of comet C\/2014 E2 Jacques, stack of 24x240s exposures, Canon 6D and TV-76mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tails are faint! I have talked to a couple folks who have observed the comet in mid-sized telescopes, 14 and 24 inch, instruments. One thing they note is the absence of any visual tails on this otherwise bright comet. In processing the imagery from last night I can see the tails, but only in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tails of Comet C\/2014 E2 Jacques&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,15],"tags":[1879,337,1880],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14198,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195\/revisions\/14198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}