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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 276543
10/27/2007 10:21 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Here in Md the rain stopped today. We had like 40 days without rain been in a drought don't ya know. It started to rain the day the comet showed up so I got my first look at it and WOW. Its very naked eye. The moon is very bright and it does'nt seem to matter. In binocs my wife and I agree it has a green hue. Watching it for about 10 min. so cool looks like stuff coming off of it. How big is the halo? looks big
I going out to look again.
I'm on the Delaware bay side of Jersey, where do I look? N,E, S, or West. Quoting: sx1100
Been thinking same thing--I'm here on Long Island N.Y. Looking NEabout halfway up in the sky is a big tri color star like object--Is this my Comet or am I just seeing things ??? A little help or link. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 302929
10/27/2007 10:24 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Here in Md the rain stopped today. We had like 40 days without rain been in a drought don't ya know. It started to rain the day the comet showed up so I got my first look at it and WOW. Its very naked eye. The moon is very bright and it does'nt seem to matter. In binocs my wife and I agree it has a green hue. Watching it for about 10 min. so cool looks like stuff coming off of it. How big is the halo? looks big
I going out to look again.
I'm on the Delaware bay side of Jersey, where do I look? N,E, S, or West. Quoting: sx1100
look to the north east
heres a link [link to www.astronomy.com] |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 302929
10/27/2007 10:25 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
looks like a fuzz ball not a star |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 318350
10/27/2007 10:39 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
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| Turtles Know 
Warning: Turtles Bite
User ID: 286176
10/27/2007 10:44 PM
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Someone said that if you are looking at the Moon, the comet is at 10:00 -- is that correct? Quoting: Celestial*Child
Yep.
No drummer out there is scared of you, Turtles.
AC 586763
A head full of dirt is what makes you enchanting, especially when you till it up for planting. [link to myspace.com]
They say the meek inherit the earth, but who, then, gets the kingdom?
[link to turtlesvoice.blogspot.com] |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 318364
10/27/2007 11:20 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Nothing in the news I've noticed...
hmmmm......... |
| Ossie bloke
User ID: 317619
10/27/2007 11:41 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Here's an amazing several day time lapse of Holmes exploding.
[link to artics.de] |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 316241
10/27/2007 11:42 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
 THIS IS ALL BS, GOSH ITS JUST A COMET |
| hatch battener
User ID: 318353
10/27/2007 11:45 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Comet finding is rarely an easy thing, even for seasoned skywatchers. But comet Holmes in the Northern Hemisphere, is the easiest comet to find since Hale-Bobb in 1997. Comet McNaught earlier this year was too close to the Sun and too low on the horizon for those in the Northern hemispere. This comet is currently visible pretty much all night in the Northern hemisphere. As the days go by and we get a little further away from the full Moon, this amazing comet will probably reveal even more details.
The thing is, comet hunting can be frustrating, when you're not seeing anything, but once you do spot a comet, you can usually find it right away from then on. So it's worth the initial effort.
This comet is easily visible as starlike object, but the trouble is finding out which of those starlike objects is the comet. That tip about the comet about 10 oclock on the Moon, that is a good tip. If you were to check all the brighter stars in the 9 to 11 position, you would run across the comet. Although the Moon is going to change position relative to the comet so that 10 oclock position is not going to work as the night and days go on. The comet is quite aways from the Moon right now, probably about 15 Moon diameters, but it is in that general direction. Binoculars will clearly reveal that it is comet Holmes and not a star or planet.
Also, here's the star map with comet Holmes from spaceweather.com-
[link to www.spaceweather.com]
I like to start with the constellation Cassiopia, which is readily identifiable in the sky, and then use the relative positions as shown on the skymap to find that curved line of stars in Perseus that points back towards Cassiopia, and the comet is easily visible right to the left of that curved line of stars.
Give it a shot, it'll be easy to find once you do find it! |
| Ossie bloke
User ID: 317619
10/27/2007 11:54 PM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Quoting: Ossie bloke 317619
That link has turned blind just within last few minutes. There may be now too much traffic to see the time lapse. |
| Turtles Know
Warning: Turtles Bite
User ID: 286176
10/28/2007 12:06 AM
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No drummer out there is scared of you, Turtles.
AC 586763
A head full of dirt is what makes you enchanting, especially when you till it up for planting. [link to myspace.com]
They say the meek inherit the earth, but who, then, gets the kingdom?
[link to turtlesvoice.blogspot.com] |
| 89446
User ID: 252155
10/28/2007 3:49 AM
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Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is now larger than Jupiter.
Astronomer Eric Allen of Quebec's Observatoire du Cégep de Trois-Rivières combined images he captured on three consecutive nights (Oct. 25, 26 and 27) and placed them beside a picture of Jupiter scaled to the same distance as the comet
The diaphanous and curiously spherical cloud surrounding the comet's core is now large enough to swallow the King of Planets!
[link to spaceweather.com] |
| * <----star of destiny
User ID: 279402
10/28/2007 3:55 AM
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Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes is now larger than Jupiter.
Astronomer Eric Allen of Quebec's Observatoire du Cégep de Trois-Rivières combined images he captured on three consecutive nights (Oct. 25, 26 and 27) and placed them beside a picture of Jupiter scaled to the same distance as the comet
The diaphanous and curiously spherical cloud surrounding the comet's core is now large enough to swallow the King of Planets!
[ link to spaceweather.com]
Wowwwww ok .....ok ..my mortal self is trying to be realistic about this but you have to admit ..that is fuckin amazing ....damnnnnn think about that for a moment ....a "comet" that is only at most maybe a few miles big can erupt to a size that is thousands of times larger than the Earth !!!!!!!! Bigger than Jupiter !!!!!! That is amazing. Even if you are the most level headed ho hum kind of person that still must be amazing to comprehend.
What if it keeps getting brighter ? What will the people think ?
Man's symbiotic connection with the cosmos will be known and there is nothing which can stop that knowing. Because everything we all do everyday helps confirm that truth. It is just that we haven't reached the pinnacle of where it leads. But we will soon enough. We will either live or die with that knowledge. Between Heaven and Earth is us.
Be brave young warriors in truth.
[link to www.youtube.com]
Only a miracle will save us now.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860) |
| 89446
User ID: 252155
10/28/2007 4:09 AM
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Wowwwww ok .....ok ..my mortal self is trying to be realistic about this but you have to admit ..that is fuckin amazing ....damnnnnn think about that for a moment ....a "comet" that is only at most maybe a few miles big can erupt to a size that is thousands of times larger than the Earth !!!!!!!! Bigger than Jupiter !!!!!! That is amazing. Even if you are the most level headed ho hum kind of person that still must be amazing to comprehend.
What if it keeps getting brighter ? What will the people think ? Quoting: * <----star of destiny
One thing is sure - that amount of eruption/explosion/emission and not a bit of dust trail is impossible! Unless the comet is not moving or the trail lies behind that huge coma and is blocked from view.
And this is the 4th day and spaceweather hasn't updated the sky map. Could independent observers pay attention to the comet's position? Is it moving in relation to the Perseus constellation? |
| 89446
User ID: 252155
10/28/2007 4:12 AM
| | ricker
User ID: 316964
10/28/2007 4:16 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Project Lucifer. I'm telling you they blew something up with Cassini out there. It's fucking obvious |
| ricker
User ID: 316964
10/28/2007 4:18 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Jesus Christ. If you look at the most resent image it looks like there is more mass around the "coma" now. It's also turning red. Do you all see the same thing in that image? |
| ricker
User ID: 316964
10/28/2007 4:24 AM | | 89446
User ID: 252155
10/28/2007 4:25 AM
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Jesus Christ. If you look at the most resent image it looks like there is more mass around the "coma" now. It's also turning red. Do you all see the same thing in that image? Quoting: ricker
The "eruption" is very symetrical. Either this thing is a comet and is traveling towards us, or it wasn't/is no longer a comet and it turns into... something. |
| ricker
User ID: 316964
10/28/2007 4:27 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Still no pictures from Hubble huh? Strange... |
| ricker
User ID: 316964
10/28/2007 4:36 AM | | Anonymous Coward
User ID: 318462
10/28/2007 6:03 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
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| FreeFlow
User ID: 51202
10/28/2007 7:07 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Hey Martina!!!
Good to see you again, where have you been?
Thanks for the link!!!
I say they deliberately blew it up after they saw the success they had with Tempel!!!
I am afraid it's no cosmic miracle tho it could backfire to them dark asses ...
I am here to challenge your indoctrinated false belief that flaming queens don't use shovels ... |
| FreeFlow
User ID: 51202
10/28/2007 7:09 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
called to tell my sister and this guy was there and said it was the hubblecraft, that they were getting ready to move it from the nw right about the time i seen it move. but my mom seen it fly away the night before last, so, dunno. going to go to hubblesite and see if it was moved night before last too. oh well, my ship will come in sometime... Quoting: I'M CRUSHED 318111
Your description of that colorfully blinking craft never can fit to hubble, they can't it move the way you described, many folks just have to keep their views of the world intact and so all has to stay normal, lol.
I am here to challenge your indoctrinated false belief that flaming queens don't use shovels ... |
| FreeFlow
User ID: 51202
10/28/2007 7:12 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
Awesome images, that one from ricker even shows a double halo, what's up with this?
I am here to challenge your indoctrinated false belief that flaming queens don't use shovels ... |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 318288
10/28/2007 7:15 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
this is not a normal comet. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 318288
10/28/2007 7:18 AM | | FreeFlow
User ID: 51202
10/28/2007 7:24 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE FOR LINKS; CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMMENTS HERE:
I love it how civil this thread stays!
 
Now going to catch ap with all and read the links etc ...
I am here to challenge your indoctrinated false belief that flaming queens don't use shovels ... |
| Joseph
User ID: 305708
10/28/2007 7:31 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
You are watching a Genesis, happening..
You will not believe what happens next..
Glory to GOD, ALMIGHTY ! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 318288
10/28/2007 7:32 AM | | Re: 17P/Holmes - Enigma 'Comet' | Quote |
You are watching a Genesis, happening..
You will not believe what happens next..
Glory to GOD, ALMIGHTY ! Quoting: Joseph 305708
Do you know what happens next? |
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