The near-nucleus environment in comet Hyakutake

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eso_eso9622a March 17th, 1996

Credit: ESO

This photo is a reproduction of a 5-second R-filtre CCD exposure obtained by Chris Lidman (ESO) and Olivier Le Fevre (Observatoire de Meudon, France) on UT March 15.3, 1996, with the EMMI Multimode Instrument on the ESO 3.5-m New Technology Telescope (NTT). It has been image-processed by Stefano Benetti at ESO-Santiago and Olivier Hainaut at the ESO HQ in Garching. This image displays the asymmetric components of the coma structure near the cometary nucleus. It shows a major dust jet emerging from the nucleus at 1 arcsec distance (250 km projected) in the North-East quadrant and turning counterclockwise a few arcsec (about 1000 km projected) further out. This is the first image to show evidence of such a well delimited jet this close to the nucleus.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9622a/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Comet Hyakutake
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Comet

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Grayscale NTT (EMMI) Optical (R) -
Eso_eso9622a_1280
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ID
eso9622a
Subject Category
A.2.2  
Subject Name
Comet Hyakutake
Credits
ESO
Release Date
1996-03-17T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9622a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
New Technology Telescope
Instrument
EMMI
Color Assignment
Grayscale
Band
Optical
Bandpass
R
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
5
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
396.0, 395.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso9622a
Metadata Date
2023-10-11T09:27:19.403850
Metadata Version
1.1
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