The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
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^ Most meteors do glow a greenish color coming into the atmosphere. I searched and found the technical explanation last year when I had this discussion with a female school teacher from England. I had a friend who saw one, and I saw one a few years later. The teacher had recently seen one. When the meteor comes quickly into the atmosphere, it will superheat a couple of elements in the air that will glow bright yellow for one and bright blue for the other. The combined colors make for the greenish effect.
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Comet McNaught (2007) as specially photographed from Australia. Some say that the tail of ISON may be similarly spectacular, and maybe even more so. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1311/comet_mcnaught_546.jpg
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More on Comet Ison as it moves into the public domain and media outlets such as the BBC start telling the story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25052236 Even as I write that the BBC News Channel previews a news item on Ison - with dramatic graphics. Hopefully the real thing will match those in due course. Martin
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Ison is now IsOFF Frustrating. - I've been waiting a long time for this. R.I.P. little ice ball.
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Jonathan:
Ison is now IsOFF Frustrating. - I've been waiting a long time for this. R.I.P. little ice ball.
Just now saw it on the news! It would have been spectacular had it made it around the sun!
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Yeah. I was using it an excuse for buying a new camera. (lost mine recently) My telescope has been sitting alone in isolation for months now. I suffer from "LackOfMotivationOsis"
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Jonathan:
Yeah. I was using it an excuse for buying a new camera. (lost mine recently) My telescope has been sitting alone in isolation for months now. I suffer from "LackOfMotivationOsis"
LOMO...I know it too well!
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Although far from what I (and many others) were hoping for, here's a pretty good gif file of the comet's headless debris field as that portion did continue around the sun http://media.skyandtelescope.com/images/11106507235_ec20b425d7_o.gif At one point, some folks were reporting that we could still have some type of visual from earth if the debris field held together...but now it sounds like no one is reporting that any longer
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^ It would have been nice, rich! I say we put an iceberg on an atlas rocket...launch it toward the sun...give it a perfect trajectory...and design our own comet light show
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Such a beautiful universe love doris
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COMET ISON Before and After...It's Encounter with The SUN... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1311/ISONperihelionLASCOc2.jpg
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Now they're not so sure what the story is - it appears something has survived, but it's too early to know exactly what...or more likely how well it will hold up from here on out...one of the descriptions I've read is 'almost appears as a headless comet with a typical comet tail'
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I heard that later last night as well. It will be interesting to see how things develop over the next few days.
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Comet ISON's survived encounter with the Sun, and progress, as recorded by the video cameras of solar studying spacecraft SOHO. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131130.html
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^ Amazing!!! Thanks so much for posting, Steve!
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^ Can't wait to see more pics over the next few days!
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The moon is breathtakingly beautiful tonight!
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^^ yes it is!
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A beautiful universe isn't it love doris
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Triplets Love Paul:
The moon is breathtakingly beautiful tonight!
Do you think China lit it up more? ... Only kidding .... Yes, I agree ---- it was spectacular .... & the night skies on clear or relatively clear night would be all the more awesome if I only got away from all these lights I will soon ... I promise Just not in this weather ... snow, snow, snow