Comments on: Looking back at Comet 67P/C-G https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/looking-back-at-comet-67pc-g/ Sat, 02 Apr 2016 02:12:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: mpthompson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/looking-back-at-comet-67pc-g/#comment-872186 Sat, 02 Apr 2016 02:12:06 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=38537#comment-872186 Is that Scorpio in the background?

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/looking-back-at-comet-67pc-g/#comment-872122 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:08:54 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=38537#comment-872122 The lit up part at the top of the comet is interesting. On further reading, I think that the comet is not exactly backlit but only appears so, and that the Sun is not in reality being eclipsed by the comet:

From the link: “In this configuration, the nucleus appears backlit, with only a few portions of the illuminated surface visible from this view – in the upper and upper right part of the nucleus.”

I suspect that the sun is actually above and slightly to the right of the comet, out of the frame of the picture.

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