ISON - tomorrow it will slingshot around the Sun

[trodas]

So, our little ISON comet is diving into the Sun and if it survive the slingshot around it (well, the tidal forces will be enormous and if it survive, then we know that this one is from pretty solid material, not some loose group of rocks and ice or similar weak things), then we shall see a beautifull show, when it will depart to outher space from the Sun

 

Today the ISON enter the SOHO satelite, monitoring Sun (yes, this behing the clone on the arm from top-right to center), view ange:

 

SOHO 1418 ISON diving in2

 

I quess I did not need to tell, witch one is the ISON, do I...?

 

And it approaching the Sun with amazing speed. Actuall images you can find there:

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/

 

Beautifull animation from the SOHO frames bring us the Suspicious0bservers on YouTube today:

 

...and even back in 20.11. we seen ISON as little speck (compared to the Earth and Mercury) on images from the Stereo satelite:

 

So, I hope you are excited as I'm to look at the show, that is unfolding right now as we speak

[Dreadlockyx]

Too bad I haven't got any decent solar filter. I can only use a poor Newtonian telescope, very small.

[trodas]

Well, not to worry! I did not counting on clean skies... but satelites seems to work pretty well:

 

previous gifs: http://s7.uploads.ru/r3GqF.gif

http://s30.postimg.org/egarkebe9/SOHO_ISON_dive_in.gif

(soon we did not see her )

 

Lots of nice ISON photos on Bruce Gary site: http://brucegary.net/ISON/

 

 

Such as:

 

ISON Nov16 Waldemar Skorupa

 

 

ISON Nov15 Damien Peach

Edited November 28, 2013 by trodas

[trodas]

Looks like that just like the comet Lovejoy in 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh3Wju3qabE

 

...the comet ISON make it and it is moving far from the Sun and starting to brighten up back again, just like Lovejoy:

 

Lasco C2 ISON

 

ISON made it thru

 

Stereo ISON shoot

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2013/11/28/ahead/cor2_rdiff/512/

 

Kolem Slunce si to hnala rychlostí přes 1 milion 300 000 km/h....! http://s21.postimg.org/tjszscbxz/still_counting_for_ISON.png

http://www.cometison2013.co.uk/perihelion-and-distance/

 

...and soon there will be much better quality images that these almost realtime previews. It will look like this:

 

SOHO ISON C2 last moment

 

Much better, huh?

[Dreadlockyx]

It's really fascinating.

[trodas]

Sadly, that is the end of this. Because the poor little comet get pretty dim now, possibly changed or destroyed (that is IMHO unlikely, because the trajectory is still the same, so if like 80% of the weight is gone, then the trajectory should be changed...)...

 

 

I hate to say that this is the end, but it probably it. We see what turn out to be left of it later

 

Comet Elenin get even entirly destroyed - Sun strike her with CMI and she exploded, and that was the end...

 

It was even notably bigger that ISON (3,7 to 5,5km), but Sun is powerfull destroyer:

[Dreadlockyx]

Had the same feeling when I missed the Venus-Sun eclipse... There'll be more events to watch.

[trodas]

Yep, let's hope so. Sadly poor ISON did not make it. After a while it looked like it can... but then it faded and probably get destroyed entierly. Sad. Same vay Sun killed comet Elenin:

 

And bunch of others So it is nothing new...