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Table 1

Observational circumstances of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) during February 2013.

Date JD Images r h Δ α FWHM
[days] [AU] [AU] [deg] [arcsec]

2013-Feb.-08 2 456 332.474792 456 332.58176 42 4.839 4.010 6.963 4.87
2013-Feb.-09 2 456 333.374772 456 333.62491 97 4.828 4.009 7.169 4.65
2013-Feb.-11 2 456 335.382032 456 335.61912 68 4.806 4.008 7.587 5.30
2013-Feb.-12 2 456 336.404982 456 336.50574 40 4.796 4.008 7.780 5.01
2013-Feb.-13 2 456 337.422862 456 337.60275 76 4.784 4.008 7.996 4.59
2013-Feb.-14 2 456 338.324762 456 338.60417 79 4.773 4.008 8.188 4.14

Notes. Date is the date of observation; JD is the first and last Julian dates for each observing night; images is the number of useful images; rh [AU]: heliocentric distance (AU); Δ [AU]: geocentric distance (AU); α [deg]: phase angle (degrees); FWHM: median of the full width at half maximum of the seeing for each observing night (arcsec).

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