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Post by skywalker on Nov 11, 2013 20:57:30 GMT -6
Can it actually be recognized as a comet with binocs or does it just look like a faint fuzzy star? I'm gonna try to spot it with my telescope when I get back home next weekend. If I do I'll post some photos.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2013 4:00:15 GMT -6
Can it actually be recognized as a comet with binocs or does it just look like a faint fuzzy star? I'm gonna try to spot it with my telescope when I get back home next weekend. If I do I'll post some photos. You might want to take a peak at comet Lovejoy while you're at it. It's in the same general vicinity as ISON but even much brighter. It's now reached naked eye visibility where light pollution isn't a factor. www.spaceweather.com/It's a gem !
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2013 23:54:52 GMT -6
I submitted a brief observation report early this morning of some of the comets that are now present to other amateur and professional astronomers Internationally. I left out a bunch of the habla concerning coma diameter, magnitudes, coordinates, etc. Just thought I'd share with y'all. Though I've done quite a bit of observing lately, it's the 1st report I've submitted in awhile.
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Post by lois on Nov 20, 2013 20:29:28 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Nov 21, 2013 23:18:39 GMT -6
I'm going to attempt to post them using the method that Bewildered suggested. Let's see if it works.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 21, 2013 23:19:42 GMT -6
Nope. It didn't work. Stupid computer.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 21, 2013 23:32:26 GMT -6
I'll have to do it the old fashioned way using my photobucket account.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 21, 2013 23:33:24 GMT -6
I got one of them anyway. The second one is not cooperating. Stupid computer!
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Post by lois on Nov 21, 2013 23:43:41 GMT -6
I know some one is grasping at straws maybe. But in a couple of days ISON appears to resemble another crop circle. Which is more exact. If this keeps up, either someone is pulling my leg or it is a real photo of ISON. hope you can get it on later sky. If It does appear to resemble a third crop circle I will send you a photo. One of the crop circles was from the summer of 2007 I believe.
Sorry you are having a tough time with it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2013 3:17:43 GMT -6
Getting closer. Will it/they (ISON/Encke) survive ? I had the opportunity to view these two comets and more recently. I was also able to see a few others. Comet Lovejoy is spectacular right now. I highly recommend it. It has barely reached naked eye visibility. www.spaceweather.com/Also, to view live this Thanksgiving day, check out this link ; cometison.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2013 3:51:27 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2013 21:04:50 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Nov 27, 2013 21:43:50 GMT -6
I'm inclined to agree with your friends. It does look like lines from the glare. Not that I would know or anything. There's quite a bit of solar activity going on there too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 7:55:53 GMT -6
Perihelion starts shortly. I would ask anyone not to try to watch this with a telescope or any other equipment such as binoculars or even the unaided eye. Sever retinal damage or even blindness could result. For those who want to observe this safely from their computer, here is a link from NASA soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/index.html/Enjoy your Thanksgiving everyone !
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Post by swamprat on Nov 28, 2013 10:27:01 GMT -6
Sungrazing Comet ISON is still aliveBy Amanda Barnett, CNN updated 8:41 AM EST, Thu November 28, 2013 (CNN) -- Comet ISON is "alive and brightening dramatically" as it nears the sun, according to a website observing its journey. The "somewhat upbeat" forecast came a day after it looked like the sun may have cooked the core, or nucleus, of the closely watched comet. Hopes are high that ISON will survive its Thanksgiving Day close encounter with the sun -- skimming 730,000 miles above its surface -- and emerge to put on a big sky show. It might even become visible to the naked eye, meaning everyone would be able see it, not just those with good telescopes. The glare of the sun has blocked most ground-based observations, but NASA has a fleet of spacecraft watching as ISON plunges toward the sun. Two space telescopes recorded images of the comet after it started acting like it was falling apart. NASA's STEREO satellite and later the European Space Agency/NASA SOHO spacecraft both spotted ISON. The images indicate that ISON is on course and "is seen to brighten ... a reasonably bright tail might develop as the comet reappears," said Padma Yanamandra-Fisher with NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign. Despite the optimistic update, members of the observing team say they still can't be sure the nucleus is intact or that ISON will survive its closest approach to the sun -- what's known as perihelion. Bottom line, experts don't know if ISON will survive and won't know until it either vaporizes or emerges from the sun's glare. "I am cautiously optimistic that the comet will survive perihelion (going out on a limb here)," Yanamandra-Fisher said. Thursday's observations by yet another satellite, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, may give us the answer, she said. www.cnn.com/2013/11/27/us/ison-comet/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 13:12:40 GMT -6
That's pretty !
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 13:33:19 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 14:15:11 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Nov 28, 2013 15:31:34 GMT -6
Isn't that it zooming up at the top left corner there?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 19:06:02 GMT -6
By golly I think it did survive ! ssa.esac.esa.int/ssa/aio/product-action?RETRIEVALTYPE=LATEST_POSTCARD&FILTER=C3&INSTRUMENT=LASCOYeah Sky, that image was much different before I left for dinner but then I came back and saw that,,,wow ! Just about everyone had thought it had fizzled. I was hoping a cme perhaps knocked the tail off which happens a lot or maybe it had lost much of it's material and then fired back up with new fissures. I'm thinking now that it may be the case. These types usually don't survive ! This is awesome ! I just notified several astronomers, they didn't know. Most I guess had figured it was gone and went about their Thanksgiving day. About 20 or so of us were watching earlier with anticipation when I made this post earlier waiting for results. It was looking unfavorable to say the least. I just notified many worldwide. It is true about the saying that comets and cats are so much alike. They both have tails and are unpredictable. I'm curious now how bright it will get now that it has shed off much of it's layers. This thing could do anything at this point as far as brightening. It may have lost too much, or it may have opened up new fissures and may display itself to be a brilliant spectacle. I'm flat out amazed ! This is going to be interesting to watch it develop between now and the next several days , weeks, or who knows ? WOW ! NASA Goddard even posted this thinking it was gone earlier.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2013 19:42:31 GMT -6
I guess many "experts" are disagreeing and saying it is fizzled out. I believe at this point it is too much of a premature assumption for anyone to claim that. It does appear to have lost a significant amount of material,,, but we'll see. Personally, until it is analyzed further and watched over the next few hours, I think they're jumping the gun. Just my dose centavos. Hey , I'm no expert, I could be wrong. I have been wrong before, and will again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25143861
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Post by skywalker on Nov 28, 2013 19:52:24 GMT -6
I think they are full of turkey. I just read some of the news alerts posted on the web and they are saying they think it broke up because nothing came out the other side of the sun but the pictures we just saw clearly did show something coming out.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 28, 2013 20:07:45 GMT -6
Now they are saying it is just a cloud of dust and debris that is coming out. They claim the nucleus is gone. Bummer.
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Post by lois on Nov 28, 2013 22:42:21 GMT -6
ISON is gone.. And I never got to see it. I was hoping I would when it came back around. We had nothing but clouds all week. Yes it does look like it came out but that must of been your cloud of dust sky.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 28, 2013 23:25:53 GMT -6
We got our hopes built up again and they fizzled out again just like always. The "comet of the century" turned out to be a dud. I remember back when comet Elenin was predicted to be a "doomsday comet" that was going to destroy the earth and cause all sorts of mayhem and instead it just doomed itself. Ison did the same thing. Bummer.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2013 15:20:59 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2013 18:34:57 GMT -6
More here : www.spaceweather.com/Also, in this article at spaceweather.com check out the asteroid WH25 at 0.4 ld. That's close astronomically. It's about 1/2 the distance between earth and the moon,,,but just a bit closer.
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Post by lois on Nov 30, 2013 0:05:26 GMT -6
kentucky truthseeker has put a video on FB claiming ISON made it. He say do not listen to Nasa. He thinks that cloud of dust is the real ISON and it survived.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 30, 2013 0:23:06 GMT -6
I thought it survived too when I first saw it come around. It still looked like a comet then. All of the "experts" said it didn't make it tho. We'll find out for sure over the next couple weeks.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2013 0:45:08 GMT -6
It did survive (at least for now anyway ). Take a look at my last two posts above and go to the spaceweather.com link.
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