(meteorobs) OT- The Sun swallows a bright comet!

[Ian Musgrave & Peta O'Donohue]

G'Day All

At 02:23 AM 29/05/2008, meteoreye wrote:
> >From SOHO:
>(These are large, high speed connection only)
>  http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.gif
>http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c2.gif
>
>c3 is the wider field of view, c2 closer.
>The sun's disk is the size of the circle in the center, behind the 
>occulting disk.


Which way is the comet coming in? In the C2 images I see nothing 
between 26-05 amd 29-05. I the C3 images I see no comet either 
between 26-05 and 20-05 (although Venus is coming in from the right).

Cheers! Ian

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