Will Comet ISON put on a show from the southern hemisphere near the end of 2013?
8 Oct 2012, 23:30 UTC
Nick Lomb
Blocking out the Sun with a post. Photo Nick Lomb There is a lot of interest in a newly discovered comet called Comet ISON. In late November 2013 this comet will pass very close to the Sun and may then be bright enough to be seen in the daytime. A few weeks later the comet’s [...]
Blocking out the Sun with a post. Photo Nick Lomb
There is a lot of interest in a newly discovered comet called Comet ISON. In late November 2013 this comet will pass very close to the Sun and may then be bright enough to be seen in the daytime. A few weeks later the comet’s outward trajectory will bring it to just 0.4 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. This visit from Comet ISON has been extensively discussed by commentators from the northern hemisphere, but what will we see from Australia?
The comet was discovered on 24 September by two amateur astronomers in Belarus and Russia. As it took them a day to confirm that the object was a comet, the organisation International Scientific Optical Network with which they are associated was credited with the discovery. For more of the story ...
