Visual observers have estimated the comet to be as bright as magnitude 9.0 to 9.5. Unfortunately the comet is located in eastern Sagittarius low in the southwest right during evening twilight. For the next few nights it will be located within a few degrees of Mars which will help with finding the comet. (As you can see from the plot to the right, the comet appears along the line-of-sight between the Earth and Mars but is not actually close to Mars). This will make for difficult observing due to its very low elevation. To make matters worse the comet is only going to get even lower in the future. It is possible the comet may brighten some as it approaches perihelion on Dec. 19 and 0.81 AU from the Sun. By then the comet will be almost 1.7 AU from Earth.
Originally posted by Lonewulph
I'm no astronomer either, but this is curious:
ssd.jpl.nasa.gov...
Click the forward button until it reaches Feb 16 (enable java to run at the top of your browser if necessary).
It looks to intersect Earth there, what distance is .0034 AU?
Originally posted by elfrog
Interesting information here about comet C2012 V1 (ISON)
LINK
The website is chaotic but it has lots of non-mainstream info.
Originally posted by DJW001
Originally posted by elfrog
Interesting information here about comet C2012 V1 (ISON)
LINK
The website is chaotic but it has lots of non-mainstream info.
I'm a bit saddened to see that Jim McCanney has finally given up all pretense of being sane. He raves so much now that you can't even find his "theories" any more.
Originally posted by JrDavis
reply to post by Rapha
They were supposed to wait till after elections to announce nibiru.
