Comet Updates
Dear Fivedoves,
January 14, : Comet McNaught and Mercury
remember Mercury.... Nov 18, 2006 (“118”).... ?
On January 14, 2007 the surprise comet McNaught was “meeting” Mercury
Fotos by SOHO (Note: because of the relative long exposure time ...1+ sec ...the Comet and Mercury seem to be much brighter than in reality)
(Time = UTC)
00 : 54 http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20070114_0054_c3.gif
03 : 54 http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20070114_0354_c3.gif
06 : 54 http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20070114_0654_c3.gif
09 : 54 http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20070114_0954_c3.gif
12 : 54 http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20070114_1254_c3.gif
14 : 54 http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20070114_1354_c3.gif
movie: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3small.mpg
(from Jan 14, 2007 - C3 http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/daily_mpg/ )
“...THE VIEW FROM SPACE: Out in space, there are no buildings to block the sun. SOHO uses a coronagraph--a telescope with an opaque disk in the middle. The disk blocks the sun to reveal nearby stars, planets and comets.
Comet McNaught is so bright, it is saturating the spacecraft's digital camera. The horizontal line through the comet's head is a result of saturation, as is the strangely uniform appearace of the comet's tail. Nevertheless, it is a beautiful view.....
....“ source: http://www.spaceweather.com/ (January 14, 2007)
http://www.spaceweather.com/ (January 15, 2007) :
“COMET DOWN UNDER: Want to visit Australia? Now would be a good time. The brightest comet in 40 years is heading Down Under. "For us in the southern hemisphere, Comet McNaught put on its first real show last night," reports photographer Mike Salway of New South Wales, Australia, where the comet was visible to the unaided eye at sunset...
Experienced observers place the comet's magnitude between -4 and -4.5, in other words, a smidgen brighter than Venus. It pops out of the twilight in the western sky as soon as the sun begins to set: finder chart.
Just last week, McNaught was a northern comet, but over the weekend it passed by the sun, moving north to south. En route it became so bright that many people saw it in broad daylight. Imagine... a comet in blue sky.
Now Comet McNaught is emerging from the glare, and it should remain a spectacular fixture in sunset skies of the southern hemisphere for weeks to come. Stay tuned!“
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Greetings with the watchword for :
Monday January 15, 2007
Verse 1: Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is at hand. Zephaniah 1:7
Verse 2: You must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour. Matthew 24:44
http://www.dailytext.com/php/dailytexts/dailytexts.php?shortdate=20070115
Maranatha
yr bro fr