Wow, I think I just wet my pants. Visible in daylight!
Toine
On 26 September 2012 16:10, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote:
If you have ever wanted to get into astrophotography, you have reason
to gear up now. I don't know if it is making national news yet, but
a comet was just days ago
Yes! Interesting to note that the most recent daylight comet was in 1910:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_January_comet_of_1910
If you notice the box with the orbital characteristics of that 1910
comet, you will see: Perihelion = 0.128975 AU
C/2012 S1 (ISON) has a calculated Perihelion of
You just wet your pants and it's visible in daylight.
That's more information than I really need, thank you very much.
;-)
So the Russians discovered this comet, eh? Sounds just like back in the cold
war. No matter what we in the West ~really invented~ they claimed to have
invented it first.
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