ISON Recovered!

[JB80]

Yay!

For picture see Bruce Gary's website.

http://www.brucegary.net/ISON/

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=44631

Well this is rather exciting news: Comet ISON lives on! (we think...)

For several weeks now, ground-based observers have been blind to Comet ISON as our local star was sitting directly between us and the comet. We knew this was a temporary problem, and expected that by the end of August, ground-based observers would begin to detect Comet ISON, so long as it hadn't fizzled out during that time. So now I am delighted to share two pieces of good news: first, that ISON is still alive and well, and secondly that it has been recovered a couple of weeks earlier than I would have expected!

[andrew63]

I guess the surprise is we should not be surprised ! I'm sure there will be a few more yet from ISON.

andrew

[JB80]

http://www.isoncampaign.org/karl/ison-recovery

Here is a longer article explaining a bit more, obviously more observations will be needed but I imagine we will see a bit more in the coming weeks.