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Old 24 July 2020, 12:22 AM   #61
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beautiful, thanks for sharing
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Old 24 July 2020, 03:50 AM   #62
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Thanks for sharing your great photo's!
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Old 24 July 2020, 02:18 PM   #63
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Just came across this on DPREVIEW in their R5 review. Sigma lens.

Found this enlightening.
The interaction between the comet and the solar wind distorts magnetic field lines, causing a cometary magnetotail which points away from the Sun. The charged ions stream along the magnetic field lines in the magnetotail, so the ion tail always points away from the Sun.


And the ion gas ejection doesn’t react with the radiation like the dust particles apparently.

Grabbed this from a fellow Flickr user’s feed. Credit to Dan I on Flickr
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Old 25 July 2020, 12:36 AM   #64
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Super Cool, thanks for sharing !!
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Old 25 July 2020, 04:42 AM   #65
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Old 12 August 2020, 09:33 PM   #66
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This fellow is just checking out, his Luminova.
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Old 12 August 2020, 09:53 PM   #67
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This fellow is just checking out, his Luminova.
Actually looks more like LumiBrite
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