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Evening folks,
I forgot to post this a day or two ago.
Let's hope it isn't too cloudy the next couple of weeks!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/14/how-best-to-see-comet-ison-viewi...

In reply to Denni: think I read somewhere its suddenly got brighter and is now visible w/o binos!! Might need to wait for the moon to bugger off.....

In reply to JamButty: Fingers crossed eh!

In reply to Denni:

I'm thinking of taking a tent up into the black mountains tonight. Any bristol/s wales types interested?

In reply to Denni: http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ison/

In reply to grumpybearpantsclimbinggoat:

Great link gbpcg, cheers for that

In reply to Denni: nice tail: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=89847

mag 5.3 and counting.. http://theskylive.com/ison-tracker

In reply to Denni:

The free software "Stellarium" has ISON. http://www.stellarium.org/

I'm just dialing in a load of locations and times so I can plan my photography...

In reply to davidbeynon:

Watching a really interesting programme on Ison at the moment. (Nat Geo channel)
In 3 days is passes near to the sun and some folk think it may not survive the close fly by.

It may also be visible to the naked eye then. For those interested in seeing it, apparently 26th Dec or there abouts will be the optimal time.

Interestting stuff.

In reply to grumpybearpantsclimbinggoat:

I'm a bit puzzled ; the chart at the side says the closest approach to earth is 26th December but the animation shows it to be at least a week earlier

In reply to Denni:

Unless I'm misreading this I thought it was brightest at the start of December?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25052236

This will hopefully be my 4th coemt viewing, very lucky

In reply to davidbeynon:


Thanks for the reminder, just installed this on my openSUSE linux, and managed to find ISON pretty much straight away...

In reply to Denni:
Oh no! Is it going to crash into the Earth and wipe us all out

In reply to Al Evans:

Yes. That is exactly what is going to happen.

In reply to davidbeynon:

Bruce Willis is on the case,so we can all breathe easily

In reply to Al Evans:



I reckon we will be ok Al!!

In reply to toad:

Unfortunately he is too expensive these days, so they are sending Bruce Forsyth instead.

In reply to Denni: http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2013/11/24/ison_encke_nov19_22.g...

In reply to Denni:

So if we follow it every night will we bump into some 3 kings and a squawking bairn on the 25th?

In reply to malk:

Looks like a couple of lonely sperm heading towards the earth egg.

In reply to felt:

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

A live feed tomorrow when it passes by the sun, will it make it or will it melt!

In reply to Denni:

Will it be visible from Equatorial regions?

In reply to estivoautumnal:

Apparently it has survived its brush with the sun and should be seen in the Northern Hemisphere in the next few days, albeit at distance and weather dependent.

Not too sure about round equator area, where abouts are you? Here is a good guide of where to see it etc.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/14/how-best-to-see-comet-ison-viewi...

In reply to estivoautumnal:

This link will supposedly show nearly real time of the comet starting at 1pm Eastern Time (US) which should be about now......

If you click on dataset 0131, last one on the top row, you might get to see it pass the sun. I think its pretty amazing they can get an image like that of the sun and beam it back in real, or near real time.

In reply to estivoautumnal:

Sorry, me again being geeky. 1845 ish will be its closest approach to the sun which is called perihelion so watch the second set of data streams from half 6 ish, if you want to that is ;0)

In reply to estivoautumnal:

Forgot the data link...

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

In reply to Denni:

The way they're talking it sounds as if Ison has left the building. In pieces.

In reply to Denni:

Whats happening - did it live?

In reply to JamButty:

Live stream which you can rewind:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/28/live_watch_comet_ison_sun_video/

Ignore what I said earlier about it possibly surviving, mainstream news making a guess. On the feed they are talking about it in the past tense so doesn't look like it...

In reply to estivoautumnal:


I guess not!

In reply to Denni:

Pronounced dead at 21:30 GMT, having done an Icarus

In reply to Chris the Tall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25143861

Update, a bit might have lived.

In reply to Denni:

evening Ison watches

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/04/20/metor-shower-from-comet-ison/