Comet Putting On A Show! (Vanity)

02/17/03

[Davea]

Here's comet NEAT coming into view. Neat!! For more info try spaceweather.com

http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/cgi-bin/latest_img.cgi?c3+jpg24

[Davea]

Here's SOHO site http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

[chnsmok]

Wow Cool show Going to other link.

[chnsmok]

[Davea]

This thing is huge. See that big solar flare? Not to worry. It's not headed this way. Unless.....:-)

[chnsmok]

What me worry?

[petuniasevan]

Whoa! Beat me to it!

I looked in several hours ago at the latest LASCO image.

The comet was JUST beginning to show at the top of the image.

This image 2 hours later shows it better. Thanks for posting!

I will link this at APOD as soon as I post it.

[chnsmok]

I hope this isn't another live thread...

[Jimmy Valentine]

Great picture! By the way....any body know who is going to get on board this one?

Regards,

[Davea]

This is interesting...

[chnsmok]

How cool. What is that?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

ping

[Steve Van Doorn]

yeah what the heck is that? I never seen that before.

[chnsmok]

It is where the comet should be now, but I don't understand what is happening there.

[Davea]

I don't know what it is. Here's another pic. I can't seem to get it to postftp://lasco6.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/lasco/lastimage/lastimg_C3.gif

[chnsmok]

[chnsmok]

Wonder why they call it the last img of C3? Burn up? Just guessing.

[chnsmok]

Ding. Last img they took...

[Davea]

It's just the most recent image. Go here to follow. Don't know when they'll post the next one..http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-c3.html

[getsoutalive]

The prominence on the upper right limb has been expanding all day. I have never seen such longevity before. That plus this new artifact make for an interesting day around the Sun.