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OTHER COMETS



 
Comet West (passage of 1976)
 
Comet Arend-Roland (passage of 1970)
 
Comet Bennett (passage of 1970)
Credit : OHP/CNRS

Schmidt telescopes are particularly used to obtain images of comets. They usually need to cover a large portion of the sky (wide field images of at least one degree), which is the case of Schmidt telescopes.

  The above images were obtained with the Schmidt telescope at the Haute-Provence Observatory.