A jet-related colour change in the inner coma of comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1)?
Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1) has been intensely monitored with the 82cm IAC-80 Telescope at Teide Observatory, Tenerife, Spain. Multicolour photometry taken on various nights in mid-August 1995 shows that the inner coma was redder than solar colours, with a power law spectrum of index ~ -3.5, consistent with dust scattering. A large change in the
Kidger, Mark R. et al.
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1998