Get ready for Comet Ison

[Channel Hopper]

It could make last weeks flyby of the meteor a non-event

http://quantumphoenix.net/2013/02/16/graphics-and-details-comet-ison-c2012-sungrazing-in-november2013/

 

[Channel Hopper]

Now visible to Hubble, and still on target for the best object in the 2013 skies.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/ison-view.html

 

[Analoguesat]

Oooh Im really looking forward to this one after the recent one fizzled out

 

[Channel Hopper]

You just know there's a ship-full of vampires in the tail....

 

[Analoguesat]

Mathilde can bite my neck anytime

 

[Channel Hopper]

Predictive images, where it's going to be in the sky, and when

 

[Channel Hopper]

Trajectory predictions and dates

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/comet_ison/

 

[Channel Hopper]

Now visble from the ground (if you have a 2 metre telescope)

http://www.universetoday.com/101920/a-new-view-of-comet-ison/

 

[Channel Hopper]

Now just outside the orbit of Mars, and in two weeks time ISON should start growing a tail.

http://www.ibtimes.com/comet-ison-approaching-mars-how-see-it-through-telescope-1403014

 

[Vipersan]

Just hope the timing is right and we get a couple of clear nights once Ison becomes naked eye visible ..
No dosh for a Telesope as yet ..so it's bins at the ready..

 

[Channel Hopper]

Looking good

http://www.universetoday.com/105440/latest-images-of-comet-ison-show-it-is-doing-just-fine/

 

[Vipersan]

Still to small to see with a Chinese origin 6 inch reflector ..and a newbie at the controls..
Still ..one lives in hopes

 

[Channel Hopper]

Apparently it should be binocular material by the end of the month.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Here we go

Naked vampires ? ......

 

[Vipersan]

If they look anything like Kate Beckinsale ...I'm up for an invasion ..
Sic puppy me

 

[Channel Hopper]

Nowt wrong with the original LifeForce babe.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Aww, it may no longer be comet of the century

Originally researchers speculated it might become brighter than the full Moon, but based on more recent observations, it is only expected to reach around apparent magnitude −3 to −5, about the same brightness as Venus

 

[Analoguesat]

Still will be well spectacular even if its "only -5!

 

[Vipersan]

..and I was hoping for something of biblical magnitude ...
awwww...
Sulk!

 

[Analoguesat]

Comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR) has exploded & its brightness has increased unexpectedly!

http://spaceweather.com/