Posted by
michael
on from the look-out-above dept.
karlg100 writes "Space.com is carrying this article about the 3 comets this summer. The first of the 3, Bradfield, is visible via the SOHO observatory. You can see the movie here. Comets LINEAR and NEAT may give us a display in the coming months. Stay tuned."
SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) is a joint mission of ESA and NASA. The on board telescope has a coronograph: that is it masks out the sun central body to permit the study of the outer part of the Sun's atmosphere (that is known as the corona). This makes it also great for the observation of comets when they do a "very close to the sun" passage.
The home page is here and the Bradfield comet images are (for the moment) here .
SOHO view of comet Bradfield...
by
DoraLives
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· Score: 2, Informative
...is looking mighty impressive in the latest LASCO C3 frame, with a coma/nucleus that's so bright it's bleeding into adjacent pixels on the image. Neato. Grabbed it off as a desktop background.
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Good info here about the two that will likely reach naked eye magnitude or better.
Neither. It is a satellite.
SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) is a joint mission of ESA and NASA. The on board telescope has a coronograph: that is it masks out the sun central body to permit the study of the outer part of the Sun's atmosphere (that is known as the corona). This makes it also great for the observation of comets when they do a "very close to the sun" passage.
The home page is here and the Bradfield comet images are (for the moment) here .
...is looking mighty impressive in the latest LASCO C3 frame, with a coma/nucleus that's so bright it's bleeding into adjacent pixels on the image. Neato. Grabbed it off as a desktop background.
Is it fascism yet?
Interesting? No more interesting than any other raving lunatic on a street corner.
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