Get ready for Comet Ison

[Channel Hopper]

Since it would have been recorded a month ago, then edited, I doubt there is anything new in the programme.

Half glass full though.

 

[skomedal]

explains quite a lot to minions not in the know, maybe new get recruits interested in stargazing

 

[Channel Hopper]

explains quite a lot to minions not in the know, maybe new get recruits interested in stargazing

They'll find out in a week.

 

[skomedal]

Really disapointing, expected more facts on comet ison

 

[Channel Hopper]

Really disapointing, expected more facts on comet ison

Horizon isn't what it used to be.

You'll now have to get up at 6am for most of next week

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Really disapointing, expected more facts on comet ison

Same here Mr Sko, lots of guesswork and ideas floating about and not enough about the comet.

 

[Analoguesat]

Great pic from the Canary Islands

http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=90104

 

[Channel Hopper]

Mirror, signal....

http://www.isoncampaign.org/files/images/blogpics/ison_encke_nov19_23_crop_hi1a.gif

 

[Channel Hopper]

A day to go, and now visible on the SOHO LASCO C3 detectorscope

http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi...inish=2013-11-28&Instrument=LASCO&Detector=C3


Some reports now out there suggesting Ison is breaking up.

 

[Analoguesat]

Nooo - we have waited a year for this one - the damn thing cant break up before we get a good look!

Although its not unknown - Comet Biela famously broke into 2 a few hundred years ago.

 

[Lazarus]

You can remember that?

 

[Analoguesat]

No but wiki can

 

[Channel Hopper]

Images taken from Messenger, sitting in orbit around Mercury

the MESSENGER observations offer a varied science investigation of the comets. “Whereas the MDIS images will provide a global picture of the comet coma morphology, MASCS observations will inform us about the composition of the cometary ices, and XRS may be able to tell us what the dust is made of,” Vervack said.

“Comet encounters were not considered when the MESSENGER mission was designed,” said Sean Solomon of Columbia University in New York. “If Encke and ISON share a few of their secrets on the formation and evolution of the solar system, the MESSENGER team will be delighted with the scientific bonus


http://www.astronomy.com/news/2013/11/messenger-captures-images-of-encke-and-ison

 

[Channel Hopper]

The predicted path on the SOHO C3

 

[Analoguesat]

Less than an hour to ISON perihelion. The tail is bending under the intense radiation and gravitational forces

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/comet-ison-at-930am-est/#.UpeCgycXebU

 

[Analoguesat]

2 of the scientists on the live nasa chat are saying the early indications are shes broken up on final approach

 

[Channel Hopper]

The NASA SOHO page appears to have been swamped.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Sky News posts results of monkey using Photoshop

 

[Channel Hopper]

NASA's google hideout

https://plus.google.com/events/c8t7i5dbr1k50oq89giloiqe8rc

 

[Channel Hopper]

2 of the scientists on the live nasa chat are saying the early indications are shes broken up on final approach

Confirmed, she's toast (or steam and soggy mush)