Comments on: Time lapse video: ISS cometrise

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:20:59 +0000

That’s got to be fake; I didn’t hear a whoosh! (Comets go “whoosh”, right?!)

By: Rick Johnson

Rick Johnson — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:13:38 +0000

Virtually identical to watching Ikeya Seki 1965 rise in the dawn sky from a dark hilltop 46 years ago with its over 30 degree tail, just happens a lot faster in orbit. It too was a sun grazer probably in the same Kreutz family of sungrazers. It’s core fell apart and the comet pretty well vanished, head first. Will Lovejoy suffer the same fate I wonder?

Rick

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:59:24 +0000

That is, quite simply, very cool.

That’s an understatement!

That’s one superluminously superlatives exceeding video. I love it. Thanks.

I take it that’s Dan Burbank himself giving the excellent commentary at the end there?

I’d say you already have a winner here for the best astronomical image of 2012 – this or the stills from it displayed in the previous blog post – the rest are now competing for runners-up surely?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:02:11 +0000

Wow. Incredibly cool.

By: VinceRN

VinceRN — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:50:55 +0000

This and the last are some of the coolest story/images you’ve brought us. Very bleeping cool.

By: WJM

WJM — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:03:27 +0000

ELEVEN!

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:39:14 +0000

Wow. Just wow. 8-o

By: Carsten

Carsten — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:14:55 +0000

Hi Phil,

have you noticed that stars look brighter when their light passes through the atmosphere than when they are a popping up above the atmosphere? This is quite amazing! Maybe some kind of forward scatting by aerosols???

- Carsten

By: cardoso

cardoso — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:09:41 +0000

Fascinating, what a view! I´m in the south hemisphere, downloaded the data to Stellarium and will try some cometgazing tonight.