HaleBopp2007

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...

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

Finally a new image! I think the thing that is happening is what I said before... 

That's probably because the comet is pointing to Soho. 

Yeah, I hope this thing has a longer tail that it shows there... 

1 hour ago, HaleBopp2007 said:

It's also 2,5 mag, so the tail is still developing. By now it's looking quite short.

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. 

I think this photo of hyakutake resembles a little (for me at least) the aspect of the comet:

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

It's been a long time again and the camera is frozen again... Cmon, when is LASCO going to make videos without lagging! 

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 .

1 hour ago, Corncrake said:

Have we decided on the timezone yet ? I suppose being a joint ESA-NASA then UT ???

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...

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...

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

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/

Does anyone know what will be approximately the path of the comet across the LASCO camera? 

7 hours ago, verreli said:

Where are you getting the magnitude figure from?  I thought the comet was currently too close to the sun to get a meaningful reading.  Look out, from Monday, for Neowise transiting the FOV of the NASA SOHO camera.  When it pops out the other side, it should be a northern hemisphere object and getting further form the sun so becoming increasingly visible - all being well.  I'm hopeful but unsure if its brightness will overcome light levels at this time of year.  We even potentially have noctilucent clouds to contend with.  You may have better luck in Spain.

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... 

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... 

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 this comet has also faded... But, C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) can still put a good show in July. It will probably reach 2nd, 1st or even 0 mag.

Many people have reported a big tail. Let's hope it gets bigger and brighter as the comet reaches perihelion. It's already a naked - eye object (Nearly 4th mag)! 

Well, if you have dark skies, binoculars and a telescope, and if it doesn't fizzle out, sure it will!

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.

Well, it's absolutely confirmed. The Hubble Space Telescope shows it perfectly in this spectacular but sad image. 

I found this photo of the comet... I think that people in very dark skies might see the divided nucleus of the comet.

Well, I guess the comet's dead 😔

Edit: It will be dead soon*