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| Martek | Date: Sunday, 14.10.2012, 04:50 | Message # 1 |
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| Hey everyone! Im not sure about you but the best thing in my opinion about space are comets. Lets get some awesome comet photos on your favorite comets!
ALSO - I've been looking for comet photos from ISS and other space stations. Do these exist? It would have been AMAZING to be in space during Hale Bopp!!!
Let's see those photos!! 
Comet McNaught is top of my list.
Visible in broad daylight. I remember this one!
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 14.10.2012, 05:13 | Message # 2 |
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| Quote (Martek) I've been looking for comet photos from ISS and other space stations. Do these exist?
Yes, from the sungrazing comet Lovejoy last year.
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| Watsisname | Date: Sunday, 14.10.2012, 06:09 | Message # 3 |
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| That first photo of McNaught is just amazing. (Could you imagine what it would be like if Earth passed through that tail, and the meteor superstorm that would result?)
The most recent comet I've seen was Holmes after its unexpected outburst. Was interesting to watch it night after night as it became larger and brighter, starting out as an extra "star" in the sky, then a vaguely fuzzy spot, and finally blowing out into an enormous diffuse sphere.
As for Hale-Bopp, the ISS wasn't up yet when it came by, but it was seen from Shuttle mission STS-82. There's an animation here but the quality isn't great. In my opinion the ISS photos of Lovejoy are much more impressive. Love the greenish air-glow, too.
This photo most closely resembles how I remember seeing Hale-Bopp. I hope 2012 S1 gives a similar performance.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Sunday, 14.10.2012, 16:59 | Message # 5 |
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| Thats awesome Harb.
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Monday, 15.10.2012, 12:37 | Message # 6 |
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| The only way to obtain god rays in space I am annoyed by all those drawings where you can see air shadows in space casting by planets.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 15.10.2012, 16:40 | Message # 7 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) I am annoyed by all those drawings where you can see air shadows in space casting by planets.
Me too! It seems like all these space artists need to make everything look like all parts of space are saturated with gas and dust. Not good for educating people.
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| Antza2 | Date: Monday, 15.10.2012, 17:02 | Message # 8 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) Me too! It seems like all these space artists need to make everything look like all parts of space are saturated with gas and dust. Not good for educating people.
Agreed. Space looks the most awesome in it's most realistic state.
Go to antza2.deviantart.com for cool photos!
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 25.10.2012, 02:25 | Message # 9 |
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| Comet Halley from Vega-2:
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| smjjames | Date: Friday, 26.10.2012, 19:08 | Message # 10 |
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| Here's this from a couple of days ago. I'm not sure how to embed the video in the post, so a link will have to do.
http://www.space.com/18205-d....eo.html
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| Salvo | Date: Saturday, 27.10.2012, 14:10 | Message # 11 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) Hartley 2
Harley 2 seems familiar...
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 27.10.2012, 17:25 | Message # 12 |
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| Quote (Salvo) Harley 2 seems familiar...
It vaguely resembles asteroid Itokawa, maybe that's what you're thinking of?
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| Solaris | Date: Sunday, 27.01.2013, 06:24 | Message # 14 |
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| Nice! Those are all great! I especially like the 1rst animation  it's graceful.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 28.01.2013, 00:57 | Message # 15 |
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| Comet Encke's tail being removed by a coronal mass ejection (4.2 MB gif)
McNaught, aurora australis, and LMC(?)
Fireworks, lightning... and McNaught
ISS and McNaught
McNaught, Milky Way, and Magellanic Clouds
One of the only pictures I've seen of McNaught which shows its gas tail
McNaught and Sydney
McNaught and Cape Town
More McNaught
Ikeya-Zhang and M 31
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