Comet Ison suddendly Outburst!! make it Naked Eye Sight :)

reply to post by cheesy


I took the liberty of doing a search for the article and it appears to have come from Spaceweather.com.

www.spaceweather.com...

Your first two pics are from that site, so where did you get the other(unbelievable) ones?

I would say they are fake, ISON shows up brighter in them than it does in the pics that were taken with a telescope and camera.

Here's a 36 minute timelapse I made of ISON yesterday morning after the outburst began:

Unfortunately I was out of town until yesterday morning, so I wasn't able to get any images of it immediately prior to the outburst, but it is much brighter now than the previous time I imaged it. It showed up quite plainly in 1 second exposures through my telescope. Each of the above exposures was two minutes long to reveal the full extent of the coma and show the tail. It's currently cloudy so no images this morning and tomorrow doesn't look too promising either

reply to post by Trillium


Yeah somewhat except 1000x Faster...

Wonder what it was and it certainly isn't no plane since I swear planes fly over all the time.

MBMASON
reply to post by TheProphetMark

 

Isn't that just a shooting star?

That's what I wanted to think it was, but it was just too low and big to have been a shooting star.

TheProphetMark
reply to post by Trillium

 

Yeah somewhat except 1000x Faster...

Wonder what it was and it certainly isn't no plane since I swear planes fly over all the time.

In that vid the meteor when thru the cloud at about 5000 feet
It being analyze right now will keep you up-dated

What a lovely shade of blue ISON is... Hopi prophesy "Blue Kachina" is not foremost in my thought... despite the general rampant doom lust lately and the immediate connection made when ever something blue shows up overhead.

It would be fitting if the Hopi spread that prophesy to worry the Europeans who screwed them... and if so, job done, as I am human enough to note it and have a healthy respect for native intelligence and possible mystic powers... given enough strange cactus-herbs and time.

Thank you, Cheesy, sir, for the heads (and eyes) up. (Looks for higher ground near the four-corners region)

Cool Link!
Comet Ison

SkyLive

ngchunter
Here's a 36 minute timelapse I made of ISON yesterday morning after the outburst began:

Unfortunately I was out of town until yesterday morning, so I wasn't able to get any images of it immediately prior to the outburst, but it is much brighter now than the previous time I imaged it. It showed up quite plainly in 1 second exposures through my telescope. Each of the above exposures was two minutes long to reveal the full extent of the coma and show the tail. It's currently cloudy so no images this morning and tomorrow doesn't look too promising either

Nice! Thanks for the view!
Ison is so beautiful.

reply to post by Trillium


What do you think that is in the vid you posted?

Doesn't look like a comet to me but I'm no astronomer...

ETA - nvm, I see you answered it in a later post.

Look forward to hearing what you find out after the analysis.

reply to post by TheProphetMark


Check Here for the date and time you saw the object or check here too

Be mindful of your local time and convert to UTC

reply to post by ngchunter


Beautiful, appreciate the image. Time to get my scope back out tonight during the wee hours of the morning. ~$heopleNation

Well... Comet Ison outburst isn't good news. According to the electric model of comets when this happens it means the comet is struggling with intense radiation particles from the Sun, meaning it could disintegrate, and if it happens one of the chunks of Ison could hit our planet, because the planet is in the right position to catch that debris in the following weeks near the same time the supposed perihelion would happen!
So RED ALERT, this is not a show!

Always fascinate when you realize just how vast the universe really is - and then - you have these magnificient celestial bodies that travel at enormous speed all around us that come to visit now and then.

Attraction everywhere. Just like beings to beings. Celestial bodies work the same, attracted to bigger bodies, like they were alive.

Powerful.

That is so awesome! If in two weeks it gets even brighter, it's gonna be an amazing birthday gift for me.

By the way, does anyone know if it is visible in the south hemisphere? More specifically: latitude -23.962411 and longitude -46.322136?

I absolutely love astronomy, but I'm nothing but an amateur. I can identify some stuff on the southern sky but that's it haha.

So please help a girl out and tell me what direction to look at next weekend?

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Me personally, I am more attracted to the not so big bodies.

Kr0nZ
reply to post by TheProphetMark

 

Im just a little bit north of Toronto, and Stellarium tells me it should rise in the east just after 4am

I live just south of Guadalajara in Mexico. When and where should I look for it? TIA

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ARRGGGHHHHHH.....The Doom Porn.....and it's written in GREEN.....Must be true!!!!

ARRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHH.

reply to post by TBrains


Look east before sunrise, currently just below Virgo's brightest star if I recall correctly. Probably best to get up on a mountain or hill so you can clearly see the horizon to the east.

reply to post by TheProphetMark


You might have seen an iridium flare.

Starts about 15 secs into video.

TBrains
That is so awesome! If in two weeks it gets even brighter, it's gonna be an amazing birthday gift for me.

By the way, does anyone know if it is visible in the south hemisphere? More specifically: latitude -23.962411 and longitude -46.322136?

I absolutely love astronomy, but I'm nothing but an amateur. I can identify some stuff on the southern sky but that's it haha.

So please help a girl out and tell me what direction to look at next weekend?

I've checked with Stellarium, and it's the same as for everybody else in the world - ISON rises in the East approximately 1hr before dawn.