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11-28-2013, 07:49 AM | #1 |
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| Comet ISON Anyone following this ball of ice? God I hope it survives perihelion today, so that I can finally see another comet that could rival Halley's Comet, Hale-Bopp, and Hyukatake. Last couple of bright comets seemed like they were only visible in the Southern Hemisphere (which has a way better sky than we northerners get anyways ). I still remember Hale-Boop being visible with a huge tail that that could be seen stepping out in the backyard even at 11PM after it swung around the Sun, and by 2-3 AM after driving out of town the tail took up half my field of vision. Can't wait to see if NASA has any more info on it when they do thier ISON Google hangout at 1PM Eastern. WATCH LIVE THURSDAY: Comet ISON Buzzes the Sun - NASA Webcast @ 1 p.m. ET | Space.com I managed to catch Pan-STARRS last year, which was cool but nowhere near as impressive to see as Halley's Comet, Hale-Bopp, and Hyukatake were.
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11-28-2013, 10:07 AM | #2 |
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| It's on live now, and is still intact. I think it gets to perihelion in the next hour and a half or so.
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11-28-2013, 10:33 AM | #3 |
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| Crap, it may be losing brightness, which would indicate its rocky core has come apart. Perihelion in about 15 minutes.
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11-28-2013, 10:37 AM | #4 |
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| Thanks.going there now!
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11-28-2013, 10:44 AM | #5 |
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| That site has too many commercials/ads and has my PC locked up. Tried to see it outside but the sun is too drn bright!
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11-28-2013, 10:46 AM | #6 |
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| Here too: NASA Television | NASA
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11-28-2013, 10:47 AM | #7 |
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| Nothing on the SDO field. You'd have no chance of seeing the comet outside right now. If it somehow survives the swing around the Sun there is an outside chance that it could be bright enough to see in the day like the great comet of 1680, as it is going extremely close to the Sun and will have tons of its water evaporated into a tail.
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11-28-2013, 10:50 AM | #8 |
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| Looks like the comet has broken up from the image taken 45 minutes ago RIP Comet ISON Crap, I was looking forward to it all year
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11-28-2013, 10:53 AM | #9 |
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| Two well-defined tails: one thought to be dust from the core, one thought to be the evaporating gas. The same kind of heavy dust tail they saw on Shoemaker-Levy 9 when it slammed into Jupiter in 1994.
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11-28-2013, 11:18 AM | #10 |
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| Hope they show it on the news tonight. I've looked at the sun during eclipses and it was never this bright.
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11-28-2013, 11:25 AM | #11 |
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| Well, crap. Hopefully something like this one comes in and survives within the next 20-30 years. Still 48 years until Halley's Comet comes.
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11-28-2013, 07:25 PM | #12 |
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| Wow, according to the latest photo published by SOHO there may still be a solid core intact. ISON Update for 22:00 UTC Nov. 28. [UPDATE 2 (Nov. 29 at 02:30 UTC): This beastie continues to surprise. This SOHO image, from 00:18 UTC on Nov. 29, sure looks like something survived intact. At this point all I can say is the same thing I've been saying all along: predicting comets is like predicting cats. Good luck with that. For those keeping score at home, it got bright, then it faded, then it got all smeared out, then it came around the Sun smeared out, and then it seemed to get its act together again. At this point, I refuse to make any further conclusions about this comet; it seems eager to confuse. I've been hearing from comet specialists who are just as baffled... which is fantastic! If we knew what was going on, there'd be nothing more to learn.]
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11-28-2013, 07:27 PM | #13 |
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| For anyone who hasn't heard the 'predicting cats' saying above, it comes from the saying Comets are like cats. They both have tails and they just do what they want.
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11-28-2013, 07:40 PM | #14 |
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| I missed Hale-Bop, so I am still waiting for my first good comet.
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11-28-2013, 08:05 PM | #15 |
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| I really hope I can live to see one as impressive as Hale-Bopp again. Not sure I can make the 48 years to Halley's Comet's reappearance, but that was spectacular the last time it came by in 1986. I'm still jealous of the Southern Hemisphere getting to see Lovejoy in 2011 and people born in the 50s who got to see Ikeya-Seki in 1965.
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