Isn't Comet ISON beautiful! Two very recent outstanding pics (just added one!)

[NRaleighLiberal]

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Good article as well - http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/17/ison_spectacular_pictures_of_a_gorgeous_comet.html



just found another outstanding pic

[Wounded Bear]

1. Unfortunately, we're getting typical Seattle weather...

Can't see it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Wait until it swings around the sun - post Nov 28. Right now it's just a very faint

object in the morning sky - barely visible. Good scopes and a camera needed for pics like this!

If it survives the sun encounter, could be quite spectacular to the naked eye in early Dec...stay tuned!

[BlueToTheBone]

4. Thanks! We're having cloudy weather

and I love astronomical phenomena and I've been bummed that we can't see the Persieds or the comet. Great news.

[libodem]

3. Wow

Cool.

[starroute]

5. And this

[BlueJazz]

6. Beautiful. Tail must be millions of miles by now. Years ago there was a poll and most people....

...thought the average comet was about 2000 miles long. Only off by a factor of 3-5 thousand ??

[Judi Lynn]

7. "Spectacular Comet ISON shines bright in new photo from Chile telescope"

Spectacular Comet ISON shines bright in new photo from Chile telescope
November 19, 2013, 2:49 PM

A dazzling new image captures Comet ISON blazing up as it heads toward its highly anticipated close encounter with the sun next week.

The photo, taken with the TRAPPIST national telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows Comet ISON streaking through space in the early hours of Nov. 15, a brilliant blue cloud of material surrounding its core.

"The image is a composite of four different 30-second exposures through blue, green, red, and near-infrared filters," ESO officials wrote today (Nov. 18) in a description of the photo. "As the comet moved in front of the background stars, these appear as multiple colored dots." {See more amazing photos of Comet ISON in the sky}

ISON was discovered in September 2012 by two Russian amateur astronomers. The comet is in the home stretch of its first-ever trip through the inner solar system, which will bring it within just 730,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) of the sun's surface on Nov. 28.

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57613007/

[question everything]

8. Is it gone by now?

There were speculations that it might be burnt by the sun and not survive it.