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C21H30O2I
Truly, amazing. hypnotizing! I cant wait to catch this thing in the night sky. Cheesy, These, shots/images. Are truly Out Of This World. Thanks, man. S&F
sageturkey
Found a really cool free app for the iPad and iPhone called Comet Watch. Enjoy!
Comet Watch
Here's a screenshot:
Image Courtesy of iTunes Website
Thanks again Cheesy, you rock!edit on 22-11-2013 by sageturkey because: Add
MariaLida
Comet ISON
Taken by Fritz Helmut Hemmerich on November 22, 2013 @ Tenerife, Canary Island
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teslarocks
reply to post by cheesy
Cheesy. You are one of the reasons I joined ATS. You always come up with great images and info concerning ISON. Looking forward to Perihelion!
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sageturkey
Found a really cool free app for the iPad and iPhone called Comet Watch. Enjoy!
Comet Watch
Here's a screenshot:
Image Courtesy of iTunes Website
Thanks again Cheesy, you rock!edit on 22-11-2013 by sageturkey because: Add
but because this is ISON's very first trip into the inner solar system. That means it is still made of pristine matter from the earliest days of the solar system's formation, its top layers never having been lost by a trip near the sun. Along Comet ISON's journey, NASA has used a vast fleet of spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes to learn more about this time capsule from when the solar system first formed.
DenyObfuscation
reply to post by Biigs
this is ISON's very first trip into the inner solar system.
www.nasa.gov...
Biigs
DenyObfuscation
reply to post by Biigs
this is ISON's very first trip into the inner solar system.
www.nasa.gov...
how can they say that? The very first orbit? from when we started measuring?
i call bull.
Comet ISON’s eccentricity is 1.000003457 – just ‘over’ 1! If you’ve not already worked this out for yourself, this suggests that its presence in our Solar System is an event that has never happened before and will never happen again. Instead of it having a highly elliptical orbit around our Sun, it seems ISON is just passing through.
SonOfTheLawOfOne
Another example of the micro following the macro perhaps?
~Namaste
cheesy
Hi my friend here the solar fleet flyby toward the dengerous sun..
Because NASA's twin STEREO probes are designed to observe the sun, they can see sundiving comets even when the glare becomes intense. Yesterday, Comet ISON joined Earth, Mercury, and Comet Encke in the field of view of STEREO-A's Heliospheric Imager. Click on the image to view ISON's grand entrance:
"The dark 'clouds' of stuff you see coming from the right are density enhancements in the solar wind, and these are what are causing all the ripples you see in comet Encke's tail," explains Karl Battams of NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign. "I can pretty much promise you that we're going to see ISON's tail doing that in a couple of day's time, but on a much larger scale!"
Battams points out another exciting development: Comet Encke and Comet ISON are converging for a photogenic close encounter. "No they're not going to hit each other - in reality they are millions of miles apart - but as seen from the STEREO-A spacecraft, they are going to get very close!" he says. "We are probably a couple of days away from seeing two comets almost side-by-side in that camera, with long tails flowing behind them in the solar wind. To say that such an image will be unprecedented is rather an understatement." Stay tuned for that
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