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Posted: 1/30/2023 2:34:15 PM EDT
It's just a minute long
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Posted: 1/30/2023 2:44:41 PM EDT
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That is neat
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Posted: 1/30/2023 6:17:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/30/2023 6:22:46 PM EDT
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Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) 00:00 29 UTC, Jan, 2023, Projected towards Earth in 36 +/- 6 hours 4K
 Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) 00:00 29 UTC, Jan, 2023, Projected towards Earth in 36 +/- 6 hours 4K A LARGE COMET IS STREAKING TOWARD THE SUN (UPDATED): Comet 96P/Machholz is streaking toward the sun for a close encounter inside the orbit of Mercury. Coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are monitoring its approach: This is no ordinary comet flyby. Most comets that fall toward the sun are small (~10 meters) and rapidly evaporate; SOHO has seen thousands of these doomed sungrazers. Comet 96P is different. Measuring 6 kilometers across, it is big enough to survive close proximity to the sun. Perihelion (closest approach to the sun) on Jan. 31st is only 0.12 AU away. Some researchers think 96P might be an Alien. Chemically, it is unlike other comets in the Solar System, lacking normal amounts of carbon and cyanogen. It also has a strangely-tilted orbit that takes it very close to the sun. Two orbits ago, unexpected fragments appeared ahead of the comet; researchers aren't sure how they were produced. "96P is a very atypical comet, both in composition and in behavior, so we never know exactly what we might see," says Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC. "Accordingly, we’re running a special observing program with SOHO to maximize the science return, so the normal flow of public coronagraph data will be slowed for a few days (to six images/hour). Hopefully we can get some beautiful science out of this and share with everyone as soon as we can." |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 7:26:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/30/2023 7:31:25 PM EDT
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So what exactly does he mean by saying "be safe everyone" at the end?
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:03:32 PM EDT
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So, does this mean we'll go back to the 1800s again?
That would be the result of a CME hitting Earth directly. Hope it doesn't do that, we'd have to go back to manual typewriters and that would just be a bit too much change, especially for the newer generations. |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:05:11 PM EDT
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nice
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:18:05 PM EDT
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It's pretty cool seeing the tail curve like that!
One comment he made jumped out at me... He mentioned the CMEs increase when there's a comet. What would cause the sun to flare up before the comet is even close to it? Does the sun know that it's coming, and is actively trying to fend it off? 
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:21:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So, does this mean we'll go back to the 1800s again? That would be the result of a CME hitting Earth directly. Hope it doesn't do that, we'd have to go back to manual typewriters and that would just be a bit too much change, especially for the newer generations. Lack of smartphones would drive the younger generations insane almost immediately! 
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:23:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lack of smartphones would drive the younger generations insane almost immediately! Shoot, I'd pay to see that happen
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:26:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So, does this mean we'll go back to the 1800s again? That would be the result of a CME hitting Earth directly. Hope it doesn't do that, we'd have to go back to manual typewriters and that would just be a bit too much change, especially for the newer generations. 95% of food production would drop within 30 days. Know how people act when food is scarce? |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:38:36 PM EDT
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Where there is such uncertainty in trajectory, there exists the possibility that the comet gets flung directly at Earth. Luckily that chance is very small because the impact a comet that size is only a little bit smaller than the rock that took out the dinos.
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:43:45 PM EDT
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Images are sweet. Nice job OP
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:44:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Where there is such uncertainty in trajectory, there exists the possibility that the comet gets flung directly at Earth. Luckily that chance is very small because the impact a comet that size is only a little bit smaller than the rock that took out the dinos. Learn to swim.
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:50:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So what exactly does he mean by saying "be safe everyone" at the end? Kinda his version of "Take care" ...he finishes each video with it. . . . .... .....or its some alien race's code phrased 'GO' signal to our planet's sleeper agents to begin harvesting human kidneys and dolphin testicles 
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:51:07 PM EDT
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Neat
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:52:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Images are sweet. Nice job OP They were cool AF , but I just re-posted them
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Posted: 1/30/2023 8:53:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 95% of food production would drop within 30 days. Know how people act when food is scarce? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So, does this mean we'll go back to the 1800s again? That would be the result of a CME hitting Earth directly. Hope it doesn't do that, we'd have to go back to manual typewriters and that would just be a bit too much change, especially for the newer generations. 95% of food production would drop within 30 days. Know how people act when food is scarce? Stay out of urban areas. Could nearly be an improvement. Nobody on Earth would have a power grid for decades, Many Decades, need to make a shitload of copper and insulation and salvaging what is left from the power lines which would be fine except for blown up transformers and power stations. No spares. World problem and we'd be starting over the tech revolution, though a little quicker than the first time. Some countries would try to attack to get the stuff they want but organizing that and only coal powered ships would put a crimp in plans. |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 9:02:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Learn to swim. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Where there is such uncertainty in trajectory, there exists the possibility that the comet gets flung directly at Earth. Luckily that chance is very small because the impact a comet that size is only a little bit smaller than the rock that took out the dinos. Learn to swim. We'd have maybe a month's notice. Might be able to lob some nukes at it. I wouldn't need to worry about swimming. I'd even get vaporized, buried in ash, or eventually starve. |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 9:04:08 PM EDT
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Set the controls for the heart of the Sun....
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Posted: 1/30/2023 9:05:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We'd have maybe a month's notice. Might be able to lob some nukes at it. I wouldn't need to worry about swimming. I'd even get vaporized, buried in ash, or eventually starve. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Where there is such uncertainty in trajectory, there exists the possibility that the comet gets flung directly at Earth. Luckily that chance is very small because the impact a comet that size is only a little bit smaller than the rock that took out the dinos. Learn to swim. We'd have maybe a month's notice. Might be able to lob some nukes at it. I wouldn't need to worry about swimming. I'd even get vaporized, buried in ash, or eventually starve. Not a Tool fan, I take it?  TOOL - Ænema (Audio) Some say a comet will fall from the sky, Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves. Seemed fitting for the topic at hand. |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 9:14:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.... nice  or... This is the strangest life I've ever known Can't you feel it Now that Spring has come That it's time to live in the scattered sun?  Waiting for the Sun - The Doors |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 10:10:37 PM EDT
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I got me some pitchers of the sun…
 Eclipse 600mm Full Sequence_ by FredMan, on Flickr Sun Spots 20170904 Detail by FredMan, on Flickr 5-Minute by FredMan, on FlickrAnd I got me some pitchers of comets…  Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) 2020-07-17 by FredMan, on Flickr Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard by FredMan, on Flickr Comet C-2022 E3 by FredMan, on Flickr Neowise Timelapse But I ain’t got no pitchers the the sun AND comets. That’s just CRAZY talk. |
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Posted: 1/30/2023 10:55:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm sure you'll be getting more photos of them at the same time, if you're still you and it's actually something visible from Earth if we know estimated times of impact. Unlikely. To shoot the sun I have to use a solar filter, which transmits something like 0.0015% incident light. With that filter my EXIF is 1/160 sec, f/8, ISO 250. To shoot a comet I used 2 sec exposure, f/8, ISO 5000 The comet pictures need about 4.2 MILLION times as much light as the sun pictures. And my cameras don’t have that kind of dynamic range.
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Posted: 1/30/2023 10:59:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Unlikely. To shoot the sun I have to use a solar filter, which transmits something like 0.0015% incident light. With that filter my EXIF is 1/160 sec, f/8, ISO 250. To shoot a comet I used 2 sec exposure, f/8, ISO 5000 The comet pictures need about 4.2 MILLION times as much light as the sun pictures. And my cameras don’t have that kind of dynamic range. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'm sure you'll be getting more photos of them at the same time, if you're still you and it's actually something visible from Earth if we know estimated times of impact. Unlikely. To shoot the sun I have to use a solar filter, which transmits something like 0.0015% incident light. With that filter my EXIF is 1/160 sec, f/8, ISO 250. To shoot a comet I used 2 sec exposure, f/8, ISO 5000 The comet pictures need about 4.2 MILLION times as much light as the sun pictures. And my cameras don’t have that kind of dynamic range. Can't you lojack a SOHO satellite or something? |
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Posted: 2/1/2023 3:30:55 AM EDT
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Did it hit or come out the other side?
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Posted: 2/1/2023 3:33:40 AM EDT
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Sure that is not the Enterprise jumping forward in time?
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Posted: 2/1/2023 4:48:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Did it hit or come out the other side? It made an odd upward path at sun, where it was coming in from lower left, it moved up but not really closer to sun so I'm guessing it's going to make it around this time and come out with a bit more speed. IOW - hasn't hit yet, didn't arc right in, orbit is off our elliptical path, it's coming from the bottom and going over the top in addition to coming from left to come out from right side. Could smack into it on the return, no guarantees but we'll know for sure in another 30 hours or so. 
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Posted: 2/1/2023 10:08:13 AM EDT
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Quick 2:33 long update for this morning
Sun Erupts Big at the Comet | S0 News Feb.1.2023  Sun Erupts Big at the Comet | S0 News Feb.1.2023 |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 4:48:22 PM EDT
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Comet missed, went past it and way up off the center top of the SOHO image so that orbit probably isn't going to be coming back soon, it's got a ways to go before it actually reverses course as it was moving pretty quick the whole time, accelerating toward the sun now slowly slowing but still clipping along fast.
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Posted: 2/2/2023 9:14:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Can't you lojack a SOHO satellite or something? Where’s the fun in that? |
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Posted: 2/2/2023 11:28:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Where’s the fun in that? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Can't you lojack a SOHO satellite or something? Where’s the fun in that? I dunno, maybe the challenge. Was just wondering, could you get a cheap lens and put a black disk over the center to only get the corona the way the SOHO does? Though i suppose that's a blacked out area of sensor to block all frying rays in the event sun bounces back and forth in lens elements and flares to edges producing hots pots on sensor. Is that something you could try wit the solar film on to see if you can get part of a crooona or is the atmosphere simply too intense and the corona is only visible during eclipses and from space? |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 8:07:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I dunno, maybe the challenge. Was just wondering, could you get a cheap lens and put a black disk over the center to only get the corona the way the SOHO does? Though i suppose that's a blacked out area of sensor to block all frying rays in the event sun bounces back and forth in lens elements and flares to edges producing hots pots on sensor. Is that something you could try wit the solar film on to see if you can get part of a crooona or is the atmosphere simply too intense and the corona is only visible during eclipses and from space? Yeah, it’s not really practical for terrestrial based imaging. This is what you get.  Sun 20170909 Filtered by FredMan, on Flickr
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