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Comet PanStarrs / March 12 (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=270745)

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Originally Posted by Hog Farmer (Post 9494888)

Bump, reminder.

Thanks, I was trying to find this thread. Taking my 15 year old out to show him and take some pics

Reminds me of when Hale-Bopp showed up in 1997. Unbelievably bright. I still am amazed at how big and bright it was with a halo showing and a huge tail.

I've tried to get a decent look at Pan, but it seems to be lower than the western Oquirrh Mountains on the western edge of the Salt Lake Valley when it's best visible.

Great photos guys.

They were saying the comet flying by in November will be as bright as the moon. Hopefully they meant a full moon.

Clear sky tonight right up until dusk. Bastard clouds...

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Originally Posted by EagleRob (Post 9495092)

Clear sky tonight right up until dusk. Bastard clouds...

Same here.

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CME, Comet and Planet Earth

Image Credit: NRL / SECCHI / STEREO / NASA
Processing - Karl Battams (NRL and @SungrazerComets)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130315.html

After appearing in a popular photo opportunity with a young crescent Moon near sunset, naked-eye Comet PanSTARRS continues to rise in northern hemisphere skies. But this remarkable interplanetary perspective from March 13, finds the comet posing with our fair planet itself - as seen from the STEREO Behind spacecraft. Following in Earth's orbit, the spacecraft is nearly opposite the Sun and looks back toward the comet and Earth, with the Sun just off the left side of the frame. At the left an enormous coronal mass ejection (CME) is erupting from a solar active region. Of course, CME, comet, and planet Earth are all at different distances from the spacecraft. (The comet is closest.) The processed digital image is the difference between two consecutive frames from the spacecraft's SECCHI Heliospheric Imager, causing the strong shadowing effect for objects that move between frames. Objects that are too bright create the sharp vertical lines. The processing reveals complicated feather-like structures in Comet PanSTARRS's extensive dust tail.

http://i.imgur.com/rpULrlv.jpg