Editing Forward scatter (section)

== Comets ==
Forward scattering can make a back-lit comet appear significantly brighter because the dust and [[ice crystal]]s are reflecting and enhancing the apparent brightness of the comet by scattering that light towards the observer.<ref name="scattering">{{cite web
  |title=Comet Elenin as seen by STEREO-B, and what we think is going to happen next...
  |publisher=Sungrazing Comets
  |url=https://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=Elenin
  |access-date=2011-08-05
  |archive-date=2011-09-26
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926203659/http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=Elenin
  |url-status=live
  }}</ref> Comets studied forward-scattering in visible-thermal photometry include [[Comet Skjellerup–Maristany|C/1927 X1 (Skjellerup–Maristany)]], [[Comet West|C/1975 V1 (West)]], and C/1980 Y1 (Bradfield).<ref name=Marcus2007>{{cite journal
  |last=Marcus |first=Joseph C.
  |title=Forward-Scattering Enhancement of Comet Brightness. I. Background and Model
  |journal=International Comet Quarterly
  |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=39–66 |year=2007
  |bibcode=2007ICQ....29...39M}}</ref> Comets studied forward-scattering in [[Solar and Heliospheric Observatory|SOHO]] non-thermal C3 [[coronograph]] photometry include [[96P/Machholz]] and C/2004 F4 (Bradfield).<ref name=Marcus2007/> The brightness of the [[great comet]]s [[C/2006 P1]] (McNaught) and [[Comet Skjellerup–Maristany]] near [[perihelion]] were enhanced by forward scattering.<ref name="fscat">{{Cite journal
 |url         = http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/marcus_icq29_119.pdf
 |bibcode     = 2007ICQ....29..119M
 |title       = Forward-Scattering Enhancement of Comet Brightness. II. The Light Curve of C/2006 P1
 |journal     = International Comet Quarterly
 |volume      = 29
 |first       = Joseph N.
 |last        = Marcus
 |date        = October 2007
 |pages       = 119–130
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110708051321/http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/marcus_icq29_119.pdf
 |archive-date = 2011-07-08
}}</ref>