Anybody here keeping track of ison

[nil1996]

anybody here keeping track of ison...

I saw a thread on ison but it was inactive for days.So i have decided to make one.So here are latest pics of ison from SOHO

its distance from SUN is 7,933,146 km

 

[nil1996]

Now it's distance from sun is 7,515,184km

 

[Hertz]

Live stream of ISON perihelion at the link below!

http://cometison.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Should be happening in about 1 hour from when I posted this

 

[nil1996]

guys is that saturn below in the left?

 

[davenn]

Looks like ISON really got "shredded " by the sun... its just a faint glimmer of its former glory

R.I.P. ISON

movie here ... http://spaceweather.com/images2013/28nov13/rip_anim5.gif?PHPSESSID=op32eqvkl28cdpkvvnv2bti1f4


cheers
Dave

 

[nil1996]

hope it is big enough to see by naked eyes :(

 

[glappkaeft]

guys is that saturn below in the left?

No, that is the bright star Antares. The "ring" is a CCD camera artefact caused by electrons from oversaturated pixels leaking into adjacent pixels.

 

[nil1996]

No, that is the bright star Antares. The "ring" is a CCD camera artefact caused by electrons from oversaturated pixels leaking into adjacent pixels.

Thanks..
But how do you come to know that it was Antares and no one else?

 

[davenn]

use a planetarium program to see where the sun is amd what the surrounding stars are

Stellarium is a good choice

Dave

 

[davenn]

Was it a Shakespeare line that said?

" the rumours of my early demise have been greatly exaggerated"

haha ... ISON still seems to be reasonably intact ... will be interesting to see how it looks when over the next week or so it gets picked up visually

http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2013/11/29/weird_anim2.gif

cheers
Dave

 

[nil1996]

thanks, the software is really cool,