C/2012 S1 (ison) Could Be The Brightest Comet Ever Seen By Mankind

[Boro Snow]

Ison now has a tail, this is the very latest image taken only 90mins ago

 

[joggs]

Very interesting to watch this develop.

[Buriedundersnow]

newest image

 

 

looks like its coming right for us

[Boro Snow]

http://helioviewer.org/?movieId=NrDX5

 

Amazing piece of video i have just found

[SteveCoops]

Anyone seen a comparison of ISON's computed/expected trajectory vs what it's actually doing?

[Mokidugway]

So pleased comet ison has survived , after all wat is there to look forward for in december !!!!!.. :) :)

[Crepuscular Ray]

Anyone seen a comparison of ISON's computed/expected trajectory vs what it's actually doing?

It'll take the boffins a couple of days to work out exactly what the new trajectory is.

[Buriedundersnow]

the hand of god is here to save us from ison and nudge us out its way

 

 

[Boro Snow]

the hand of god is here to save us from ison and nudge us out its way

 

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if carlsberg could make the perfect cold spell WELL .............................................................................................  

[Mokidugway]

Comet the man comet the cold spell !!!...

[DAVID SNOW]

I think the boffins at nasa are fully aware of isons  'new' orbit.......

[Crepuscular Ray]

I think the boffins at nasa are fully aware of isons  'new' orbit.......

Is it on the same track as they predicted before perihelion? Had anyone decided before perihelion whether its trajectory was orbital or hyperbolic?

Edited November 29, 2013 by Crepuscular Ray

[Boro Snow]

[Jax]

So pleased comet ison has survived , after all wat is there to look forward for in december !!!!!..

free mice pies (buuurrrpp)

[cheese]

To me, it appears like ISON is diminishing in brightness. I'm starting to think that it won't even be visible to the naked eye.

Edited November 29, 2013 by cheese

[Buriedundersnow]

I think the boffins at nasa are fully aware of isons  'new' orbit.......

 

yeah and there being very quiet about it cos its gonna

 

SPLATTER US AW !!!!!!!   

[Polar Maritime]

COMET ISON LIVES: Cancel the funeral. Comet ISON is back from the dead. On Nov. 28th, Comet ISON flew through the sun's atmosphere and appeared to disintegrate before the cameras of several NASA and ESA spacecraft. This prompted reports of the comet's demise. Hours later the comet revived, sprouted two tails and rapidly brightened. It is now receding from the sun with a fair chance of becoming a photographic object in the morning sky as early as Dec. 1st or 2nd. A new coronagraph movie from SOHO documents the flyby (updated Nov. 30 @ 00:09 UT http://www.spaceweather.com

[The PIT]

It lives all right but maybe a case of hunting for it with your eye balls. Of course if it was going to be the comet of the century it would have been cloudy from 2nd Dec onwards until it left our skies.

[Coast]

Going to have to strain the old eyeballs I reckon.

 

'So many questions' about Comet Ison

 

Astronomers say some part of Comet Ison may have survived its close encounter with the Sun. It was thought the giant ball of ice and dust had been destroyed by the Sun's heat and gravitational pull.But US naval astrophysists say something re-emerged two hours after the comet disappeared from view.Karl Battams is an astrophysicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC and has been watching for the comet from the solar telescope control room at Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25150072

 

Let's hope for s few clear nights next week,  Thursday might be good in the South:

 

[Boro Snow]

This is a must read a recent blog from Karl battams

 

http://www.isoncampaign.org/karl/a-trail-of-questions

 

Also if you have twitter you can follow him, his account is @SungrazerComets

[cheese]

 

Doesn't look very good.

[Bobby]

Has faded a lot now, just a faint smudge

 

 

Estimated magnitude about 6-7 now, not visible to naked eye. Dead? Or is there life in the old dog yet?

[The PIT]

Pity well I'm expecting clear skies ta night next week to rub it in now.

[Gray-Wolf]

It is a disappointment, esp. if , like me, you leant toward believing the initial science releases ( even with the normal caveats) that we were in for a good showing through December.

 

I'm sure that we will have other chances to see good, bright, long lived Comets over the coming years though? This one was only discovered 15 months ago so someone might be spotting the next good one right now!

[Mokidugway]

Astronomy, just like the weather full of endless dissapointments !.