Comet Halley's confusing brightness: Early results from worldwide visual observations

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Dec 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986esasp.250c.303f&link_type=abstract

In ESA, Proceedings of the 20th ESLAB Symposium on the Exploration of Halley's Comet. Volume 3: Posters p 303-306 (SEE N87-26714

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Brightness Discrimination, Brightness Distribution, Halley'S Comet, Light Curve, Visual Observation, Visual Photometry, Astronomical Models, Hydroxyl Radicals, Magnitude, Space Observations (From Earth)

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No comet in history has been observed visually by so many so often as Halley's in 1985/6. The result is an impressive and still growing mountain of several thousand visual magnitude estimates, listed e.g. in the American 'International Comet Quarterly' and the British 'Astronomer'. The intent of this study was to compile a synthetic lightcurve from a selection of these data. After the elimination of systematic errors, 'brightness laws' were deduced and compared with predictions.

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