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The comet appeared with yellowish white dust tail with length about four arcminutes and green-tinted ion coma in the constellation Cancer. The location of the comet was 1.9 AUs from the Sun and 2.6 AUs from the Earth at the night, 72 days before the perihelion passage at 0.0125 AUs from the center of the Sun according to the current prediction.
This 1314 x 976-pixel frame is cropped of 5634 x 3753-pixel full frame. If I could use an optics with focal length 2.5m, I may be able to take a frame of this scale.
swanne
reply to post by MariaLida
So it's still in one piece. Cool, thanks for the post!
grindhouzer
swanne
reply to post by MariaLida
So it's still in one piece. Cool, thanks for the post!
Im still not sold that it is...
(taken on the same date as the OP)
grindhouzer
reply to post by MariaLida
And FYI Op, THIS is the latest image of ISON : 18/9/2013
cheesy
grindhouzer
swanne
reply to post by MariaLida
So it's still in one piece. Cool, thanks for the post!
Im still not sold that it is...
(taken on the same date as the OP)
I think That a star / planet behind ISON..if it ISON part it will have a Tail too..edit on 19-9-2013 by cheesy because: (no reason given)
cheesy
I think That a star / planet behind ISON..if it ISON part it will have a Tail too..
kloejen
reply to post by MariaLida
So, plagues comes from space? I remember an old article on this subject.
Astronomers say flu came from outer space
I know it's Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, but interesting none the less?
kloejen
reply to post by MariaLida
So, plagues comes from space? I remember an old article on this subject.
Astronomers say flu came from outer space
I know it's Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, but interesting none the less?