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Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Not me eather. Also, your prediction is quite reasonable... Here I show two images of the comet... There's a slight difference. I think the comet was +2.5 mag at the left at +2.2 at the right... I've also made a magnitude curve, in which the stars are what I thougt the comet had evolved since it entered LASCO... -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
The comet is not looking bad at all. It's actually better than before. Could someone please estimate its magnitude at this photo? I estimate the comet is between +2 and +1,5 mag (At least I hope so...). PD. The star on the right is mag +2.75 -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
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Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
That's probably because the comet is pointing to Soho. -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Yeah, I hope this thing has a longer tail that it shows there... -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Maybe it's that short because it's practically pointing to the LASCO cameras. I saw recently Bradfield comet at perihelion from C3 and it looks similar to NEOWISE, except it's pointing far from SOHO. The "elongated coma" of NEOWISE can be a bright, long tail with a round coma. -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
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Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Well, the coma of the comet looks nice, but the tail, for now, I can't say much about it... It's also 2,5 mag, so the tail is still developing. By now it's looking quite short. And the same thing happens again! Why is the LASCO camera so lagged? https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/1024/latest.html -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
It's been a long time again and the camera is frozen again... Cmon, when is LASCO going to make videos without lagging! -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
I hope so... I’ll see how it evolves tomorrow since I think the same thing as before happened again... We’ll see if the comet got any better or any worse . -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Well, I live in UTC + 2 (Spain in summer) and it's around half past eight PM, so i think it's Just taking delay. I guess it is just UTC and it's arriving with some delay, idk... -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
It is confirmed! That's the comet we were waiting for, and, good news! It's currently mag 2,5 aproximately, and that's 11 days before perihelion! That's a great signal, and if the comet survives, it will surely reach 0 magnitude at perihelion. Here's an old prediction of the comet's brightness, and it's quite close of how the comet is now... -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Ok, it has finally refreshed, and it's perfectly noticeable that there's something where I marked before that indeed wasn't there before! The bad thing is that there's not a line that indicates that the comet is bright. The thing of before should've been a particle of solar wind. Edit: Here, every 15 minutes aprox. a new photo is published, here you can se an animation of how the comet will be moving: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/lasco-coronagraph -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Yeah, and I think I can see it in this link a little, just a little bit with a line (signs that the comet is burning the sensor) right where it should appear. That could mean NEOWISE is actually really bright! But it could also be solar wind particles. So let's wait untill the next photo... https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/ -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Does anyone know what will be approximately the path of the comet across the LASCO camera? -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Well, Many predictions have fortunately stopped at 0 and - 1 mag at perihelion, but a few of them are in 3rd mag. So I don't know which one to believe. Of course, I'd love the comet to be that bright, but as the comet has been lost by the sun's glare, we can't see how is it doing. You're saying that NEOWISE will enter LASCO camera this Monday? That will give everyone a window to see the comet and how it is evolving... -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Looks like the comet is slowing down its fast increasing magnitude. I don't know how this one's ending. Maybe it fades, maybe it gets brighter, I don't know... I guess I'll just wait... -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
HaleBopp2007 replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Still looking good! Most of the predictions left the magnitude at perihelion in 0 and even -1! The comet is not visible anymore because of the sun’s glare, but from 30 to 40 degrees north in latitude, the comet will appear in its maximum in early July... -
So, ATLAS has disintegrated, and it won't provide us a great show in May. But there's another comet that could reach naked-eye visibility in the same time that ATLAS' debris reach perihelion. It's C/2020 F8 (SWAN). It's had an outburst recently and it could reach 3rd or even 2nd mag. And it's looking pretty good from the southern hemisphere! Here, in the north, we'll be the only ones that will see the perihelion of the comet. So let's see if we're lucky this time... No one knows what could happen, but I have hope. It was only discovered on March 25th, so there's still time to see how this comet reacts.
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Comet C/2019 Y4 (Atlas) brightening fast
HaleBopp2007 replied to Littleguy80's topic in Celestial Events Heads Up
Well, it's absolutely confirmed. The Hubble Space Telescope shows it perfectly in this spectacular but sad image. -
Comet C/2019 Y4 (Atlas) brightening fast
HaleBopp2007 replied to Littleguy80's topic in Celestial Events Heads Up
I found this photo of the comet... I think that people in very dark skies might see the divided nucleus of the comet. -
Comet C/2019 Y4 (Atlas) brightening fast
HaleBopp2007 replied to Littleguy80's topic in Celestial Events Heads Up
Well, I guess the comet's dead 😔 Edit: It will be dead soon*