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Nicolas,

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Don't apologize, you put a lot of time and effort into collecting and processing these images, providing data for others who don't have such information to scrutinize. One can look at any image, any camera, any telescope, any software processing, anything to do with imaging comets and find numerous things to suggest the data is not perfect. Anyone who thinks any data is perfect is only fooling themselves. The only comet data that comes close to being perfect data is a single image that has had nothing done to it, totally raw data. Your data has created a lot of discussion which is a good thing, everyone should look at their own data and ask themselves just how realistic is that data after all the processing and everything else that has been done to their images. Then one can ask what the atmospheric conditions were when those images were collected from the surface of Planet Earth. Smog, thin clouds, haze, light pollution, aluminum oxide and the list goes on and on, a list that no one can answer but which produces or hides artifacts such as comas. Magnitude estimates, coma size, comas, tail lengths, everything to do with comet observations depends on so many variables that it is hard to decide if your images did show cometary activity, but it is also hard to say that they did not.