Comet Neowise [split topic]

[Twonty Gostelow]

We have a visitor to cheer us up - Comet Neowise.
Anyone here seen it yet? https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/comet-neowise-blazes-trail-over-4317556

Most visible comet since Hale-Bopp, although it won't be as high. I'll try to get a view of it this weekend while the skies are clear, although it looks like it'll be around for a couple of weeks. Excited.

[Uncle TechTip]

Saw the comet, around 4am very low in the north. I needed binoculars to find it but it was glorious. Once found it can be seen with the naked eye. Look for a fuzzy star, but get the bins to check the tail. Best seen in twilight, evening or morning.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

Saw the comet, around 4am very low in the north. I needed binoculars to find it but it was glorious. Once found it can be seen with the naked eye. Look for a fuzzy star, but get the bins to check the tail. Best seen in twilight, evening or morning.

My view to the NE is obstructed but I'm going to look for a vantage point tonight. My mate took these pics last night.

[Ambient Sheep]

Two lovely photos of it here:

https://twitter.com/jperez1690/status/1281337404100538368

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-53383007

[idunnosomename]

WHERE IS MY SUPERNOVA. FUCKS SAKE WE'VE BEEN DUE ONE SINCE WE INVENTED THE TELESCOPE

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

I honestly thought this was about Comet returning to the retail sector, possibly with an exclusively online store called Neowise. Turns out it's just some rock.

[hamfist]

I took this pic of it last night near York. Mad that is has an orbital period of 6700 years. Last time it dropped by, people were just getting into domesticating chickens and horses. What will we be doing next time ?

[Twonty Gostelow]

That's a great pic, thanks. I still haven't seen it, but at least it's not on the BBC News front page yet.

[Thomas]

Pissed off that it's so cloudy here. Bet it'll be lovely and clear in 6,800 years.

[idunnosomename]

I took this pic of it last night near York. Mad that is has an orbital period of 6700 years. Last time it dropped by, people were just getting into domesticating chickens and horses. What will we be doing next time ?

the same if we're lucky

[BlodwynPig]

any tips as to how to spot it, might have a look tonight, thank you

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

What will we be doing next time

Space anal

[Barry Admin]

More beautiful pictures here https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200715.html



Edit: damn https://m.facebook.com/APOD.Sky/photos/a.2762832093820992/2762861553818046/?type=3&source=43&refid=56

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Fucking hell there's ten of them now!

[Norton Canes]

WHERE IS MY SUPERNOVA. FUCKS SAKE WE'VE BEEN DUE ONE SINCE WE INVENTED THE TELESCOPE

What are the chances?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53415294

[Puce Moment]

When I see those comets hurtling towards Earth my panspermia tendencies really do come out.

[ProvanFan]

When I see those comets hurtling towards Earth my panspermia tendencies really do come out.

That's why I keep a comet rag in the bedside drawer

[idunnosomename]

What are the chances?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53415294

well really I mean a star in the immediate neighbourhood going. if betelgeuse in orion collapsed and went supernova it would be as bright as a half moon, as hard as that is to imagine

[Thomas]

well really I mean a star in the immediate neighbourhood going. if betelgeuse in orion collapsed and went supernova it would be as bright as a half moon, as hard as that is to imagine

I'm really hoping that star blew up at just the right moment to be visible in my lifetime.

Scientists are always saying 'we could see it any time in the next 100,000 years!' Yeah, well, you scientists might live that long, but us shitmunchers don't have quite so much to go on.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

I don't wish to shock you, but Beetlejuice is 700 light years away, so it's possible that it's already gone supernova, but the light from that event has yet to reach us.

[idunnosomename]

ah but what does "now" really mean if information can only move at the speed of light

[Captain Z]

We should just send a probe there now to see if it has blown up yet, and if not we know can take our eyes off it for 700 years or so.

[Thomas]

I don't wish to shock you, but Beetlejuice is 700 light years away, so it's possible that it's already gone supernova, but the light from that event has yet to reach us.

Exactly. I hope it blew up precisely 642 years and six months ago - today. Well, not actually today, since it's still cloudy. Next week. I want to see the whole thing, the full flare up.

[idunnosomename]

its funny that there were like half a dozen supernovas - some bright enough to be seen in the day - independently recorded in Europe and Asia from 1000 to the early 17th century. then galileo invents the telescope and we havent had any! typical.

[Uncle TechTip]

Probably only two - Crab Nebula and one recorded in Cambridge or somewhere 1700s - the rest were comets or really big meteors.