Comet 29P angular diameter approx. 22"
Taken by Odd Trondal on November 7, 2024 @ Oslo
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Now we can do some interesting calculations. I measured the angular diameter of the comets head to be approximately : 22" or 0.00011 radians.
With the distance from the earth : 6.42 au = 960 400 000 km
Then we can find the diameter of the head : 960 400 000 km x 0.00011 = 105 644 km approximately 100 000 km
The speed of expansion since 1. November (6 days) : Radius/6 days = (100 000/2 km) / 6 days = 8 333 km/day
= 0.096 km/sec. which is close to Halley's comet (0.11 km/sec. calculated at 6.24au from the sun, see link to article)

Compared with Halley's comet, we have observed and calculated dust outflow velocities :
At 1.5 au from the sun : 0.231 km/sec.
at 6.24 au from the sun : 0.231/sqrt(6.24/1.5) km/sec.= 0.11 km/sec. (calculated)
and at 14 au from the sun : 0.045 km/sec. (ref, Sekanina et al. 1992)

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-0209-1_15

This indicates that this outburst of 29P is approximately the same or little smaller than Halley's continuous dust outflow at the same distance from the sun.

29P, magnitudes :
1. Nov. Mag.16 (Normal)
2. Nov. Mag.14 (Outburst)
3. Nov. Mag.13.5
4. Nov. Mag.12

Sun distance (au): 6,24 Perihel 28.March 2019 Sun dist.(au): 5,77

Time: 05:07UT 2024-11-07 Exp. 8 X 125sec
Tel: 0.254m f/7.5 ST-10XME CCD 2x2bin 1.5"/pix
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium). Oslo Norway.

Software used : TheSky6,CCDSoft 5, MSB Astroart 2.0,7.0, Paint

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