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103P on 2010-10-29

Image of 103P/Hartley taken 2010.10.29 by DI S/C and marked with directional pointers.

Caption: This EPOXI mission image of comet 103P/Hartley 2 was taken 6 days from Encounter (E-6d) using the Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI) and a clear filter. Science team co-Investigator Dr. Lucy McFadden combined four successive one-minute exposures to make this single image. The mid-exposure time was 2010/10/29 09:22 UTC. The comet was 1.06 AU from the Sun and 0.04 AU (6.6 million km) from the spacecraft.

Technical Details

Image Parameter	Details
Spacecraft:	Deep Impact Flyby
Instrument:	Medium Resolution Instrument (MRI)
Mid-exposure Date/Time (UTC):	2010/10/29 09:22
Filter:	Clear
Exposure:	4 x 60 sec
Pointing:	RA 20^h 42' 24" Dec +37° 12' 36"
Field of View:	approximately 34,000 km at the comet
Solar Elongation:	97°
Solar Phase Angle:	81°
Sun-Comet distance (r):	1.0588 AU (158 million km)
DIF-Comet distance:	0.0440 AU (6.6 million km)

Table 1: Data about image.

Additional Images:

Image of 103P/Hartley taken 2010.10.29 by DI S/C.

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This is the same image as above, but without the pointers.

Negative image of 103P/Hartley taken 2010.10.29 by DI S/C.

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Negative of the same image which makes it a little easier to see the faint coma around the comet.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD

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