Be Ready for the Show! Incoming Comet ISON Now Visible in Binoculars! The potentially dazzling Comet ISON has brightened enough on its highly anticipated approach toward the sun that its now visible through a decent pair of binoculars. Skywatchers around the world have recently used binoculars to spot Comet ISON, which is streaking toward a close encounter with the sun on Nov. 28 that will bring the icy wanderer within just 730,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) of the solar surface.... Read More: space/23552-comet-ison-visible-binoculars-skywatching.html Credit: Clifford Spohn captured this image of comet ISON using a QHY9 mono CCD/TEC 140 F7 Refractor on Oct. 11 from of Marion, Ohio while his good friend astrophotographer Terry Hancock calibrated, stacked in CCDStack and post processed the shot in CS5.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:27:39 +0000
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