… joy cometh!!!

Greetings fr/germany, (John, thanks for posting also this wonderful photo)

Maranatha, let’s keep on looking up… !!!

 

Well, almost a little tired of comets…   e.g. ISON came and went…  L

BUT today I found this report at Spaceweather.com (see below) …about COMET LOVEJOY !!! this is really amazing:

Please look at this:

>>> The comet’s Perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) will be around Christmas 2013!!! Some sources say Dec 22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013_R1

… others Dec 25, …BUT Spaceweather.com today has the date December 23. When I read this … wow, this was just like a cup of coffee… 

(remember Vincent Tan’s “2.34” encounter was December 23, 1993 … 20 years ago!)!!!

 

Now … here is more thrilling:

>>> Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) was discovered quite recently: September 7, 2013 http://www.universetoday.com/106222/tracking-comet-c2013-r1-lovejoy-through-november/

>>> September 7, 2013 exactly was Yom Teruah !!! - Rosh Hashana 5774  (the new Moon was sighted !!! according http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/karaite_korner_news/conversations/messages/632 )

 

And Here is the report with the awesome photo http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=12&year=2013

 

THE LONG TAIL OF COMET LOVEJOY: Next week, Comet Lovejoy makes its closest approach to the sun. The comet's tail is already amazing. Scroll down this image taken by Gerald Rhemann of Jauerling, Austria, for more information:

 

http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=91564

Filled with knots and eddies of dusty plasma, Lovejoy's tails stretches more than 20 degrees across the sky--long enough to overlap 40 full Moons or fill the Bowl of the Big Dipper twice. At closest approach to the sun or "perihelion" on Dec. 23rd, the comet will be just inside the orbit of Earth (0.82 AU). The extra heating it gets at perihelion will grow the tail even more.

Comet Lovejoy shines like a 4th magnitude star so it is barely visible to the unaided eye (especialy when the sky is filled with full moonlight). However, for backyard telescopes, the comet is a fairly easy target rising ahead of the sun in the eastern morning sky. If you have a GOTO telescope, send it to these coordinates. Slight pointing errors are no problem, because the tail is almost too broad to miss. Sky maps: Dec. 18, 19, 20.

 

Psa 30:5

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

 

Joy to the world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqgRldj7pjM