From samir at iucaa.ernet.in Wed Oct 3 12:18:01 2012 From: samir at iucaa.ernet.in (Samir Dhurde) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:48:01 +0530 (IST) Subject: [AstroNet] Astro News In-Reply-To: <1302670997.170562.1317699057614.JavaMail.root@iucaa.ernet.in> Message-ID: <927214046.671826.1349259481388.JavaMail.root@iucaa.ernet.in> Dear All, A previously unknown comet has been discovered last week. It is coming towards the Sun on its elongated orbit. 2012 S1 (ISON) is a discovery that has the potential to be a "great comet" in the fall of 2013. It is not currently observable visually. Here are some reports... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/comet-ison-visible_n_1915544.html http://earthsky.org/space/big-sun-diving-comet-ison-might-be-spectacular-in-2013 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120927-new-comet-2012-s1-ison-science-space-moon/ http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/20120925-comet-ison.html I cant find any actual calculations to go with the reports that its going to be as bright as the Moon! Maybe they mean to say the integrated magnitude or the brightness over a small area near the nucleus. Or do they mean it will brighter than the Moon on Moonless nights :) Any comments from anyone? Samir :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Samir Dhurde, Incharge - Public Outreach IUCAA, Pune University Campus, Pune - 411007, India Tel: (O)91-20-25604603 Fax: 91-20-25604699 http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/~scipop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Claire.Flanagan at wits.ac.za Thu Oct 4 08:14:12 2012 From: Claire.Flanagan at wits.ac.za (Claire Flanagan) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 06:14:12 +0000 Subject: [AstroNet] Comet 2012 S1 (ISON) Message-ID: <5474FF0867B9AA45850F4A7606496B926E24CD@ELEUTHIA.ds.WITS.AC.ZA> Looks like South Africans are going to miss out on this one - at the time it should be at its best, it will be too far north for us. But, comets are notoriously unpredictable - if it brightens before it goes past the Sun, we could get lucky . . . Regards Claire Claire Flanagan Wits Planetarium 011-717-1390 011-339-2926 (fax) www.planetarium.co.za

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