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| Name: Kumar Venkataramani Affiliation: Junior Research Fellow Conference ID: ASI2015_762 Title : The Comet C/2013A1(Siding Spring) and Mars Authors and Co-Authors : Kumar Venkataramani(PRL), Shashikiran Ganesh(PRL), Sonam Arora(CSSTEAP/PRL) K S Baliyan(PRL) Navpreet Kaur(PRL) Abstract Type : Poster Abstract Category : Sun and the Solar System Abstract : Observations of Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), were carried out in B,V and R broad band filters and narrow band(Hale-Bopp comet filter set) with the 1.2m telescope at the Gurushikar Observatory, Mount Abu. This comet had a close encounter with Mars on 19th of October 2014. The comet was monitored in the first week of October, then during the close flyby from 17th October to 22nd October and during the first week of November 2014. Imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetry were carried out at different epochs. The comet was at perihelion on 25th October. Post-perihelion brightening has been observed for this comet. We also imaged the comet continuously in the above period with a 50cm telescope in the R band. Further observations of this comet are planned when it comes out of conjunction with the Sun (late January 2015). In this paper, we shall summarize the results from these observations. |