Comet Ison

[StClone]

Did you not see Hale Bopp ?

Hale-Bopp was in view as a faint smudge when I first saw it and watched it grow into a beauty around for months. Comet West was bigger had a tail three ties longer in an awesome arc.

Here is Comet West it reached over one-quarter the way from horizon to zenith and was at it best in March 1976.

 

[StClone]

ISON is no more. NASA's SOHO satellite watched it break apart and disappear near sun.

 

[CYCLNST8]

ISON is no more. NASA's SOHO satellite watched it break apart and disappear near sun.

Good. One less near earth object to worry about.

 

[MNCYWX]

ISON is no more. NASA's SOHO satellite watched it break apart and disappear near sun.

Not so fast... something made it around the sun. Might not have completely survived but there is still something coming round the bend.

SOHO C2 images from this afternoon.


LASCO C2 Image



EDIT: Yup... looks like most of it has disintegrated in it's close encounter.

[video=youtube;6j6nkLnHyG0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6nkLnHyG0&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[PanoraBill]

Goodbye comet ISON, hope your remains don't rain on me. Comet West huh? I would have been junior in hs shoulda remembered something like that but I had just discovered the wonders of Mary Jane.

 

[pourcyne]

It fought the sun and the sun won? Oh well, there's still the neighbor's yard lights on the southeast horizon...

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