Weaver, H. A. and A'Hearn, M. F. and Feldman, P. D. and Arpigny, C. and Baum, W. A. and Brandt, J. C. and Light, R. M. and Westphal, J. A. (1991) Inner Coma Imaging of Comet Levy (1990c) with the Hubble Space Telescope. In: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1991. Lunar and Planetary Institute , Houston, TX, p. 232. ISBN 0942862074. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141201-071047917
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Observations of comet Levy (1990c) were carried out with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on UT 27 Sep 1990. At that time, both the heliocentric and geocentric distances were ~1 AU. The comet was imaged with the Wide Field Camera (WFC) through both red and blue filters, which were selected to isolate continuum emission peaking sharply at the nucleus. Each WFC pixel is 0."1 on a side, corresponding to 78 km at the comet. The longest exposures (4 sec) through the red filter had sufficient signal to noise that image deconvolution could be used to recover virtually the full spatial resolution of HST.
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| Official Citation: | Inner Coma Imaging of Comet Levy (1990c) with the Hubble Space Telescope Weaver, H. A.; A'Hearn, M. F.; Feldman, P. D.; Arpigny, C.; Baum, W. A.; Brandt, J. C.; Light, R. M.; Westphal, J. A. Abstracts for the International Conference on Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1991. Held June 24-28, 1991, in Flagstaff, AZ. Sponsored by Barringer Crater Company, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Lowell Observatory, Meteor Crater Enterprises, Inc., NASA, the Northern Arizona University, and the U. S. Geological Survey. LPI Contribution 765, published by the Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3303 Nasa Road 1, Houston, TX 77058, 1991, p.232 | ||||||
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