Comet Lovejoy survives perihelion!

Where is the live feed?

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

I see it and it's very faint surprisingly imo..

any idea which frame that was?

So, the live view is a 1 hour loop?

Last Edited by ItsYourFault on 12/15/2011 07:54 PM

OMG


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Sure doesn't look so big and bad right up beside the sun huh? Lol

No, sorry. I've been watching the feed but I'm really no expert on it. Astromut seems to be the go-to guy here with astronomy-related questions, maybe he knows?



Again, I really don't know. Earlier it was maybe 10-20 minutes but now it seems to be longer. It's my understanding that they're showing it in loops as the data is received from the satellite.

AAAhh turned into a giant PP

Sun doom!

here's the LASCO C2 images...

[link to sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov]

something doesn't seem quite right

Breaking News! Lovejoy lives! The comet Lovejoy has survived it's journey around the sun to reemerge on the other side.

Wow... RT @NASA_SDO: Breaking News! Lovejoy lives! The comet Lovejoy has survived it's journey around the sun to reemerge on the other side


[link to twitter.com]

That is kind of weird. Why is it so bright and huge in those images and so extremely faint on the live feed? Could it be satellite position/location? Or are you referring to something else?

Different exposure settings.

Ah, makes sense. Thanks for the answer

looks like doctored images to me but I've only followed a couple of these types of comets...

I'm no expert though so I couldn't say for sure..it's just a hunch

Actually, SOHO was launched in 1995 with 1995 digital camera technology. Do you remember how great your 1995 digital camera worked? SOHO was designed to last 2 years...that's 1997 BTW. It's still taking pictures 14 years after it was designed to be retired. The Stereos use 2006 digital camera technology, SDO uses 2010 technology.

Guess which one works best...

Soho is set up to pick up stars, comets, planets with a disc covering up the direct sun light.
The other one is set up for direct sun light to pick up the detail on the sun itself. A comet will not show up well on it.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Right? Kinda like cars I'd take a 50's-70's vehicle restored over the new pop can thin cars any day :)

I guess the thing I don't understand is why it would look SO different compared to previous Sungrazers/divers on LASCO C2?

I have an Epson PhotoPC 600 from around the Soho period, it still works. But for some reason, I always use the year old Canon to take pictures.

so um, what exactly is happening now?

I have a Nikon d3100 I love it because it's faster than processing film (which if I had to buy an older model it would def be film, but don't tell my camera lol)

I actually predicted that in this thread..

Thread: Comet Lovejoy anomaly on LASCO..is this proof that L.J. is an ET spacecraft?

It's actually more than I was expecting to see, though not drastically so.

Beat me to it. Absolutely right though.

Here it is on the other side

[link to sdoisgo.blogspot.com]

Excellent! Hope it becomes visible.