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  • Comet ISON: A Viewing Guide from Now to Perihelion

    09/23/2013 12:54:40 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    September 23, 2013 | David Dickinson on
    Currently, ISON sits about a magnitude below the projected light curve, (see below) but that isn’t all that unusual for a comet. Already, there’s been increasing talk of “ISON being a dud,” but as Universe Today’s Nancy Atkinson pointed out in a recent post, these assertions are still premature. The big question is what ISON will do leading up to perihelion, and if it will survive its passage 1.1 million kilometres above the surface of the Sun on November 28th to become a fine comet in the dawn skies in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Of course, there’s much...