Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)
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After a nice northern hemisphere visibility in the fall of 2001 (which I missed due to a busy work schedule), the comet moved south and faded from view in mid-December. Unexpectedly, it experienced an outbust on January 27, 2002. In February, I had a chance to photograph this comet during a trip to South Africa and Namibia. Apart from the forked dust dail, the image also shows a very faint ion tail, which is better displayed in this histogram-equalized image. |
| Instrument | : | Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian with coma corrector |
| Mount | : | Vixen Super Polaris DX |
| Guiding | : | ST-4 autoguider |
| Film | : | Kodak PJ400, hypered |
| Date | : | 10 Feb. 2002, 02:34 - 02:49 UTC |
| Site | : | Cederberg Observatory, Western Cape Province, South Africa |
| Image # | : | 2002-01/17 |
