Author Topic: Comet Ison  (Read 28652 times)

0 Members and 3 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #60 on: November 27, 2013, 06:31:00 AM »
SOHO pic

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • *
  • Posts: 208
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #61 on: November 27, 2013, 08:16:51 AM »
Ison is doomed..hope we get a look at it?

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #62 on: November 28, 2013, 05:42:16 AM »
COMET ISON UPDATE: Comet ISON is brightening rapidly as it plunges into the sun's atmosphere. At closest approach around 1:45 p.m. EST on Nov. 28th (Thanksgiving Day in the USA), the comet will be little more than a million kilometers above the sun's fiery surface. Temperatures around ISON's icy nucleus could rise as high as 5000o F. No one knows if it can survive that kind of baking--but if it does, it could emerge as a splendid naked-eye comet in early December.

Right now, the best views of the comet are coming from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Click to view a 27-hour movie of ISON approaching the sun



Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #63 on: November 28, 2013, 07:53:04 AM »
Looking at some older stuff this morning.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16dec_cometlovejoy/

That comet survived at 120,000km, Comet Ison is a little more than 1,000,000km from the sun.

There is a very good possibility we are going to see a comet in broad daylight.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #64 on: November 29, 2013, 05:56:40 AM »
flameout major bummer!

CANCEL THE EULOGY: Comet ISON flew through the sun's atmosphere on Nov. 28th and the encounter did not go well for the icy comet. Just before perihelion (closest approach to the sun) the comet rapidly faded and appeared to disintegrate. This prompted reports of ISON's demise. However, a fraction of the comet has survived. Click on the image below to see what emerged from Comet ISON's brush with solar fire:



In the movie, Comet ISON seems to be falling apart as it approaches the sun. Indeed, researchers working with NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said they saw nothing along the track that ISON was expected to follow through the sun's atmosphere. Nevertheless, something has emerged. Whether this is a small scorched fragment of Comet ISON's nucleus or perhaps a "headless comet"--a stream of debris marking the remains of the comet's disintegrated core--remains to be seen.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #66 on: November 29, 2013, 04:36:10 PM »
COMET ISON LIVES (UPDATED): Cancel the funeral. Comet ISON is back from the dead. Yesterday, 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. Today, the comet has revived and is rapidly brightening. Click to view a SOHO coronagraph movie of the solar flyby (updated Nov. 29 @ 1800 UT):

WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!

This should get very bright in the next week now!!
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #67 on: November 29, 2013, 05:01:28 PM »
There is a free app on itunes called COMET WATCH that will show you where to look each day for the comet. Sometime in the next week it should come out from behind the corona of the sun enough to see it.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • ****
  • Posts: 2503
  • Build rods,plugs,flys and love to fish mostly surf
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #68 on: November 29, 2013, 08:03:54 PM »
nice salt i.............. got look for that som bitch
Born to fish forced to work
time spent fishing is time well spent

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #69 on: November 29, 2013, 08:21:54 PM »
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #70 on: November 30, 2013, 01:53:18 PM »
DUD

COMET ISON DIES ... AGAIN: Comet ISON is fading fast as it recedes from the sun. Whatever piece of the comet survived the Thanksgiving flyby of the sun is now dissipating in a cloud of dust. Click to view a 3-day movie centered on perihelion (closest approach to the sun):
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #71 on: November 30, 2013, 01:53:44 PM »
 This development makes it unlikely that Comet ISON will put on a good show after it exits the glare of the sun in early December. Experienced astrophotohtaphers might be able to capture the comet's fading "ghost" in the pre-dawn sky, but a naked-eye spectacle can be ruled out.

On Nov. 29th, pilot Brian Whittaker tried to catch a first glimpse of Comet ISON from Earth, post-perihelion, from a plane flying 36,000 feet over the Arctic Circle in northern Canada. No luck:
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • *
  • Posts: 1850
  • Doesn't really fish
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #72 on: November 30, 2013, 06:11:45 PM »
if you spent more time workin instead of following this friggin thing you'ld be rich  ;D

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #73 on: November 30, 2013, 06:38:32 PM »
And if you spent less time on the computer you could have had my shirts done by now LOL
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts

Offline Out Fishing

  • Admin
  • *****
  • Posts: 5648
Re: Comet Ison
« Reply #74 on: November 30, 2013, 06:38:57 PM »
Jimmmaaayy Whatsuprubberduck
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way....Alan Watts