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Latest StereoBehind HI1 Movie:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]


Latest Stereo Ahead HI1 Movie:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]



Latest LASCO C3 Helioviewer:
[link to helioviewer.org]

Sungrazing Comets:
1900UT: This is too cute: Comet Lovejoy has a friend! Look in the upper-half of the animation opposite, starting at center and moving diagonally up and to the left, perfectly in step with Lovejoy... It's another Kreutz-group comet! (if you can't see it, here's a hint)..



So what is this new comet called? Is it another "Comet Lovejoy"? Sadly not. It looks to me like it was actually spotted in the LASCO C3 images by seasoned comet hunter Zhijian Xu at Dec 14 2011 11:48:48. So will it be Comet Xu?? No again....


1950UT: Friend of mine, and expert SOHO comet researcher, Dr. Matthew Knight (Lowell Observatory/JHU-APL) has just sent me some of his preliminary photometry calculations for Comet Lovejoy in the LASCO C3 images....

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