I think I have a piccy of ISONs remains.....

[Tim]

Finally got a chance to gather a few subs the other morning using the comet tracking feature of my mount.

I checked the estimated position of whatever is left of ISON on a couple of sites, and matched that with the coordinates in my mounts handset.

Just managed to get 3 x 10 minutes exposures before the clouds and murk blocked the view again, but there is a small, pitiful really, brighter patch at roughly where the comet should be in the frame.

Now it might be a galaxy, I need to check the position against a sky map, but if not, then it just might be a snap of what is left of the "Comet of the century!"

Will post a pic soon.

Tim

[Tim]

Just checked, there is no mini galaxies there, but it just might be a trace of the little planetary nebula IC4593.

Another session will answer the question....COME ON CLEAR MORNING SKIES!!!!!!

[Tim]

This is where I need your help....  The camera was pointing at RA 16:11 / DEC12:45  on 14/12/13 at 05:30- 06:00, the FOV of the camera is 77.6 x 116.4 arcmin, images scale 1.74arcsec/pixel.

I have identified the smudge that MAY be ISON in the picture, or may just be a bit of IC4593.

I'm not very good with these mathsy things, or at matching stars up to see if it is the planetary nebula or the comet.

Anyone got a keen eye??  

Cheers  

[Pig]

What is the object moving in the opposite plane to all the others ( bottom rightish corner)

[Tim]

That's a UFO

[Tim]

Hmmmm, have done a first and last frame blink movie and cant see anything of note. Maybe it did completely evaporate......

[Ibbo!]

have you a frame where the stars are round and do a plate solve on it?

[laser_jock99]

It's all a bit disappointing really, "Comet of the Century" and all that. To think we spent a whole year building up to this!!

[ScottS]

It's all a bit disappointing really, "Comet of the Century" and all that. To think we spent a whole year building up to this!!

That's astronomy for you. Better than it not being there at all. At least it was something to talk about. Some great images were taken of it.

[Steve Ward]

That's nothing , we wait four years for a World Cup to come round , and they always end up in a similar fashion .... Fizzling out tamely and then swept under the carpet and forgotten .... 

[Tim]

I made a blink movie of the first and last frames I took, and the bright smudge moves in relation to the stars, so it's not that, must be IC4593. That planetary is dimmer than mag 11 so I guess there's a fair chance that if anything at all does remain of ISON, it wont be a visual object for many.

Oh well, bring on the next one!

[martin_h]

I had a go at it over the weekend and could see nothing of note in any of my subs.

[Tim]

When the new Vixen scope arrives for review I'll have another go, at f3.8 and a nice wide field view it should be perfect!

[martin_h]

Its supposed to be clear in the early hours, so I might have another go at finding it.

[martin_h]

I have just had a go at an hours worth of 1 minute subs on this and blinking between the first and last can see nothing whatsoever, so it seems the comet of the centaury turned out to be a bit of a damp squib.