Comet ISON update!

[allcart]

How old is she, and is she worth having.

[SnakeyJ]

Time to rename it - Lazarus, Lucan or Shergar?

[DaveGarland]

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5480/11106507235_ec20b425d7_o.gif

[stevetynant]

Amazing - all hope not yet lost then although the word that worries me on Twitter was "Debris" ?

[SnakeyJ]

The Beeb has just updated it's coverage to Comet Battered  -http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25143861

[Crimson Sunset]

Well this is turning into a right emotional roller coaster!

[goodricke1]

Maybe the debris is now on a collision course with Earth

[Ptarmigan]

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5480/11106507235_ec20b425d7_o.gif

Wow, getting brighter and do I see a complex tail developing ?

Or am I just living in hope, , ,

we need a close-up :)

[JB80]

Another view.

[gpt]

The BBC was pretty damning, is this simply fizzled remains?

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[Ptarmigan]

Another view.

(off topic)

Why is the occulting disc offset rel. the sun ? or viceversa

[DaveGarland]

What I can't understand though, why was there was literally nothing in the live broadcast? I joked about it, but DID they move the camera the wrong way?

[stevetynant]

Agreed - BBC Dampens down hope big time

"Telescopes saw the giant ball of ice and dust disappear behind the star, but only a dull streamer emerge.

Astronomers continue to search for the object, but it is almost certain the much vaunted "Comet of the Century" has gone out with a whimper.

Despite its great size, Ison was probably torn apart in the immense heat and tidal forces so close to the Sun.

Prof Tim O'Brien, associate director of Jodrell Bank, UK, said: "The nucleus has gone very faint, which you wouldn't expect.

"We can't be sure - but it's not looking good. We'll have to keep watching."

[friedeggs]

Surely it's brightening in those lasco images

[Nogbad]

The BBC was pretty damning, is this simply fizzled remains?

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The BBC report was virtually unchanged except that it hinted there might be survivors. I don't think they have done a full rewrite yet - they are usually last with any news.

[bm1980]

I think its all over for ISON....

[JB80]

(off topic)

Why is the occulting disc offset rel. the sun ? or viceversa

Good question, and I don't know.

[Nogbad]

Surely it's brightening in those lasco images

It would seem that way but I guess we need more frames to see if it remains coherent.

[Tddun]

https://twitter.com/esa/status/406174815007948801

[goodricke1]

DID they move the camera the wrong way?

Yep, they're suggesting that on the American forums also.

[Bathurst]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaMGWJ5CcAAttkR.png:large

risen from the ashes?

[JB80]

[Tddun]

ESA seem sure that's it. From that last link I posted.

[allcart]

Still there in frame 72. Tails getting wider as you might expect, but the nucleus does not seem any brighter.

[Laurie61]

Latest c2 image,