... asteroid and a diffuse appearance showing both a coma and tail, typical of a comet ... A dark sky is an absolute necessity in order to see the faint cometary tail. ... These should provide a good view of the cometary head and tail. ...
... The meteor appears to move from left to right through the tail of Ursa Major, the prominent constellation of the Big Bear. ... The star at the lower left of the meteor is Polaris (aka the Pole star) forming the tip of the Little Bear's tail. ...
... very slow but had a very small sort of tail - it was a ball of fire falling from ... later glimsped another one large bright tail coming straight down with orange spark ...
... The gas tailѓЉwill be pointing directly away from us and thus hard to see,ѓЉbut the dust tail is a broad fan lying in the plane of the comet's orbit, so bothѓЉthe tail and anti-tail should be visible.ѓ ...
... tail, a weak secondary tail, which then prevailed in brightness over the first tail ... the primary one will be referred to as "Tail 1", the secondary tail as "Tail 2 ...
... It usually retails around #850. See: Link 5. ... a few degrees up at 17:00, and the tail perhaps visible until later in the evening ... In the meantime the comet was a naked eye object, with a short tail. ...
... This should give a second lower peak with a slow tail off In conclusion: . ... 209P/LINEAR (Gary Kronk) . 209P image (NASA/MSFC/Bill Cooke) . Images and analysis of 209P tail (Quan-Zhi Ye) . ...
... feature in the image is the twin 10-km craters Messier, notable due to the comet-like tail of rays emanating from them ... It contains one of the most famour stellar "pairs" in the sky, Mizar and Alcor (the middle star in the Bear's tail). ...