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Table 1.

Observing circumstances of the 2I VLT campaign.

Date Time (UT) Instrument set-up N ΔT (h) α (deg) Δ (au) Scale (km)
2022-09-26 07:51–09:08 NFM+WFM 6+4 −15 52.3 0.0765 55.45
2022-09-27 02:55–08:02 NFM+WFM 8+15 +6 53.6 0.0754 54.72
2022-09-28 03:54–08:17 NFN+WFM 6+14 +31 55.2 0.0743 53.90
2022-09-29 06:10–09:07 NFM+WFM 5+5 +56 56.7 0.0734 53.21
2022-10-01 06:30–09:08 NFM+WFM 5+4 +107 59.7 0.0720 52.21
2022-10-03 07:22–09:09 WFM 10 +153 62.7 0.0713 51.73
2022-10-04 06:19–07:52 WFM 8 +176 64.0 0.0712 51.66
2022-10-07 05:51–09:31 NFM+WFM 4+10 +248 67.9 0.0719 52.12
2022-10-14 05:42–08:50 WFM 24 +416 74.2 0.0781 56.64
2022-10-19 05:31–08:59 WFM 25 +536 76.1 0.0857 62.14
2022-10-25 05:52–08:56 WFM 24 +680 76.0 0.0969 70.30

Notes. N represents the number of exposures obtained, ΔT the number of hours between impact and the observations mid-point, α the Sun-comet-Earth phase angle, Δ the geocentric distance, and scale the number of kilometres covered by 1″ at the geocentric distance of the system.

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