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Comet Atlas

  • 07-04-2020 10:27AM
    #1
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,359 ✭✭✭


    Anyone seen this yet?
    I hear it could be getting bright enough to see with binoculars very soon


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  • #2
    Billhook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭Billhook


    JimmyVik wrote: »
    Anyone seen this yet?
    I hear it could be getting bright enough to see with binoculars very soon

    I heard about it online, along with the usual prophetic innuendos and earth shattering scare mongering lol

    That's why I'm looking for a good binoculars.


  • #3
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,359 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    Just read there that it is fading now instead of brightening.
    Would be nice to get a good comet again.


  • #4
    ps200306
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭ps200306


    Another fizzler! :(

    They reckon it might be breaking up.

    https://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-bright-comet-c-2019-y4-atlas


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,969 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    ps200306 wrote: »
    Another fizzler! :(

    Sounds like you might remember the biggest 'fizzler' of recent times: Comet Kohoutek (1973).....

    Before its close approach, Kohoutek was promoted by the media as the "comet of the century". However, Kohoutek's display was considered a let-down, possibly due to partial disintegration when the comet closely approached the Sun prior to its Earth flyby.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Kohoutek


  • #6
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,359 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    coylemj wrote: »
    Sounds like you might remember the biggest 'fizzler' of recent times: Comet Kohoutek (1973).....

    Before its close approach, Kohoutek was promoted by the media as the "comet of the century". However, Kohoutek's display was considered a let-down, possibly due to partial disintegration when the comet closely approached the Sun prior to its Earth flyby.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Kohoutek




    Or Comet ISON 2013. Expecting a MAJOR daylight comet with just hours to go and it never made it around the sun.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_ISON#Perihelion


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  • #7
    ps200306
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭ps200306


    coylemj wrote: »
    Sounds like you might remember the biggest 'fizzler' of recent times: Comet Kohoutek (1973).....

    Before its close approach, Kohoutek was promoted by the media as the "comet of the century". However, Kohoutek's display was considered a let-down, possibly due to partial disintegration when the comet closely approached the Sun prior to its Earth flyby.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Kohoutek
    You're right, the excitement over Kohoutek is one of my earliest science memories. At least with ISON we had the SOHO and STEREO cameras in space so we could see the "ghost of ISON" re-emerge from behind the Sun, even if there was no spectacle down here on Earth.





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