Daylight Comet coming SOON

Is this a NEW comet, or one that has not traveled by for a few hundred yrs?...

Well that thread's talking about a small asteroid, not a comet.

It's nowhere near the mass of Jupiter. It doesn't matter how big its coma is. Comet Holmes at one point had a coma that rivaled the sun in size. That does not mean Comet Holmes rivaled the sun in mass. That's absurd.

lol...my bad...can it be seen by eye or only by telescope?

Someone's having server problems.

Geez people, what could you possibly gain by attacking a person who is constantly replying in many threads with facts and answers. It's great you might have a differing opinion, but personal attacks within this thread across many pages are not welcome here.

Dr. Astro, thanks for what you do, you are a patient man to put up with the trolls.

Telescope, and even then only with a moderate sized telescope and sensitive camera.

Thanks!

In today's day and age it is getting harder to find a consumer camera that has the ability to lock open the shutter without battery drain. Very few cameras of the digital variety have this feature of low light and long term open aperture.

I use a Nikon D80 with a tokina aspherical for capturing the universe, but even that camera requires an extra set of batteries for more than 2 hours of astrophotography of different targets, because the shutter lock feature requires battery power unlike many film cameras that you could manually lock open the shutter and the film would do the rest.

As a person who regularly shoots long term exposure night shots, I recommend a good sturdy tripod, a shutter release cable to keep the jitters out of the image, and a decent set of good glass ( lenses ) with lots of practice. Star trails are common if you can't track earth rotation, most cameras start to show star trails at just over a minute... Blowing the shot.

Hope this helps those who want to shoot at night.

I have three batteries for my Canon XTi. I also use a modified Samsung SDC-435, a Mallincam Hyper Color Plus, and an Atik Titan-C. Keeping my laptop powered for autoguiding is actually the trickiest part. I need a bigger deep cycle battery for when I'm out in the sticks away from all the light pollution.

AWEESSOOMMEE!!

Unfortunately, I cannot mate the camera I have to the dobsonian telescope I use. I can for land shots, but not the heavens as it doesn't track and the modifications to make it track just doesn't justify the end result.

A good camera and a good tripod with excellent glass will work just fine for 90% of the people wishing to capture the heavens in the next 15 months.

There are plenty of videos on the Internet for those readers here to learn about night sky exposure methods, I encourage people to practice now and understand how amazing the heavens on film can be.

Headed out, work calls.

dec 22 the mayan calendar day and the necromongers Ship cloacked as a comet is aproaching !


(I will join them ) whatever I kill I keep ! :anger:

Well....Good for you!!

People get bad karma for all sorts of rubbish reasons.

Personally I think this thread is excellent OP

When the Comet Runs: Prophecies for the New Millennium by Tom Kay

[link to www.amazon.com]

Amazon description of the book: A common theme in millennial prophecies is the appearance of a bright comet in the heavens. Tom Kay's When the Comet Runs attempts to divine what this celestial event might bring with it. Kay does not claim to be a prophet, but he is adept at interpreting and integrating the prophecies of the Bible, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and contemporary prophets like Gordon-Michael Scallion. Kay weaves this potpourri of prophecy into an illustrated tapestry of the future, revealing a variety of images from earthquakes--like "the big one" due hit California--to an approaching spiritual transformation of the entire human race.

On that happy note!

I am proud to announce my latest bad karma, I have been dubbed Astro's Shill King.

Let all other shills now bow before me. I announce that I have accepted the nomination and will seek office.

Jeez us freakin Christmas morans, the guy knows his field, shows he knows his field, and has demonstrated his willingness to step in and educate others to "what's that in the sky".

.....and you take it out on me?

Woooo Hooooooo.

Hey Astro, when I finally decide to grow up, I wanna be just like you. LOL

SIGNED,

THE SHILL KING.

haha, these people are funny that don't understand size and gravity of space objects. just because something looks big doesn't mean it really is that big.

Thanks for clearing that up astro

But I dont buy the mostly ICE and DIRT. hopefully this comet will bring that theory to an end

A Sign in the Sky?

Due in 1 year?

I never bought the ice theory, and the video I linked to from thunderbolts that shows no vent holes on the comet clinched the deal for me. What is being expelled?, maybe one day we'll know and realize how foolish we were.

You people are idiots.

Oh please enlighten me great exalted one from bullshitgaria. Lead us to the light.

Why do you say that?????

I'd like to thank each and every reader of this thread, and those that gave me karma. I just spent the karma to get unbanned.

If this site had some other way besides PayPal to get a membership, I'd do it. I hate eBay and Paypal.

Thank you again, I'll keep posting info to this thread as it becomes available. I look forward to the positive comments that help others prepare for witnessing this extraordinary event.

NEAT!!!