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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield11/18/13 4:37 PM |
comet ISON?
Found an article on The Register about a comet approaching perihelion at < 1 million miles in early December. Comet ISON.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/comet_ison_may_fragment/
Have any of the astronomers here seen it yet?
BTW: It was overcast all weekend here, did anyone get to see the Leonids?
Last edited by daddy-o on 11/18/13 6:09 PM; edited 1 time in total
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real11/18/13 5:08 PM |
The weather and viewing time has not been good for me yet. I hope it is perfect next week. I have family coming in and they want a sky tour. Something about they expect me to know about the stars.
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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
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Location: Springfield11/27/13 3:09 PM |
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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC11/27/13 3:28 PM |
Yea, I saw a program about it on Nova. Was surprised none of the amature astronomists in TTF started a thread about it! ;-)
Personally, I'm not interested enough to get up to see it. Though I can see the attraction to those who're into this sort of stuff.
If I remember correctly from the program, it's going behind the sun tomorrow. So if you don't see it tonight, you may or may not see it, EVER AGAIN!
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/27/13 3:34 PM |
"Yea, I saw a program about it on Nova"
I recorded into the DVR; NOVA 'Doomsday or Payday' and Comet Encounter but not got to viewing. Both about the subject I suspect. Not sure when I will get to them, but now you got me more curious.. ;)
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April
Joined: 13 Dec 2003
Posts: 6593
Location: Westchester/NYC11/27/13 4:03 PM |
It's one of those Nova program that went several hours long on the same theme, but only one of them being "the" Nova hour. So if you only recorded 1 hr, it might not be "it".
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/27/13 4:26 PM |
Comet encounter is the one after the NOVA one, so yeah, two hours recorded...
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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2626
Location: Canberra, Australia11/27/13 5:55 PM |
From the Southern hemisphere, we won't be able to see it once it passes perihelion unless it gets bright enough to be visible in daytime. And up to now it hasn't been a naked eye object - certainly not from in a town with streetlights on all night.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
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Location: PDX11/28/13 2:16 PM |
Watching it now, it is strictly ISON documentary...
EDIT: OK, also added the Stellarium Add in for it.
but what is the current new saying, the sun ate it ?
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real11/28/13 4:13 PM |
Yep, the reports are the sun ate it......bummer
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