all! lets watch the realtime Ison journey meet the sun..provide by NASA!

SolarObserver
reply to post by Tsu322

 

I think it was Phil that said they are having issues setting the contrast on the SDO spacecraft which could be why we aren't seeing much.

Ah, I vaguely remember a mention of this, I think it was mentioned as a cause for sudden massive brightening, too? Or was that something else with the equipment?

My fingers, toes, arms, legs etc are crossed! Hope it stays together!

Same here. If only I could get a 4-leaf clover, rabbit's foot, lucky penny & tie my tatas in a bow, we'd be in good luck business.

reply to post by zilebeliveunknown


It did in frame 129....
see above

Just said it appears that the nucleus has broken up, but they aren't sure.

anyone spot that triangle on the latest soho pic?
Looks like ison didnt make it

captiva
reply to post by zilebeliveunknown

 

It did in frame 129....
see above

Hot pixel.
We'll see ISON, hang in there

Use the IP for SOHO/LASKO, as the website is having trouble, and the DNS URL is not working well.

198.118.248.97...

ISON is history, but it was fun following it's journey.

R.I.P. ISON

reply to post by zilebeliveunknown


hot pixels dont have tails ...

reply to post by SolarObserver


Nasa just said we don't need to worry yet, the pics are hard to read.

reply to post by charlyv


Im not suprised its having trouble now, must be A LOT of interested peopleing hitting those servers now

Please ison, make it my little glowing friend! you can do it!

reply to post by SecretKnowledge


ISON might be IGONE.

So the entire thing will vaporize, even the rocks, the fellow on youtube is saying, and they can "look at the light and analyze the images" to ascertain what it's made of. Or used to be made of.

But wait, one guy is saying we shouldn't be worried, that the cameras weren't really made to look so closely near the sun - although he says it's much further away than Lovejoy. So who knows. I will sit and wait.

reply to post by SolarObserver


But in 2011 we saw lovejoy in the same SDO cam's ...so... i think it's gone!

reply to post by Aleister


Yea!

They're saying the SDO isn't designed to not point at the sun, so there isn't as much data as the spacecraft is used to.

voyger2
reply to post by SolarObserver

 

But in 2011 we saw lovejoy in the same SDO cam's ...so... i think it's gone!

The main reason they said is that they don't know what the comet is made of, and the SDO spacecraft is design to pick up certain molecules.

reply to post by Tsu322


I'm getting this live feed

Thanks for using the sig strip by the way

Cody

reply to post by cody599


They're talking about it being an ex-comet.

reply to post by Aleister


Yeah I caught that but I'm an optimist

But BUGGER not looking good.

Still got some hope though

Cody

I feel bad for people like Cheesy who honestly seemed to take joy from this comet.
I'm interested to see the people that were convinced it was anything other than a comet explain this one.

reply to post by captiva

I'm reading on twitter that SDO field is not wide enough to see ISON.
Dammit

reply to post by opethPA


Yea I'm definitely disappointed that we won't get to see the tail in December, that would have been absolutely gorgeous.

reply to post by opethPA


Trash one death star .......................... Go Luke !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cody