Narval spectre de la Comète 17P/Holmes

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23 octobre 2007

23/10/2007

Le 23 octobre la comète P17/Holmes est passé d’une magnitude de 17 à une magnitude de 2, dans un spectaculaire épisode de jet, similaire à l’expérience Deep Impact.

Le TBL a pu observer le noyau cométaire à son pic d’intensité pendant la nuit du 24 octobre 2007 avec le spectropolarimètre Narval.

Observations faites en conjonction avec le télescope de 1m du Pic du Midi sous la direction de François Colas

* Données de la Cométe P17/HOLMES

Spectres non-normalisés

Spectres normalisés

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