tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44850276343865520982024-12-18T19:20:19.382-08:00Comet EleninJames William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-69674012832052293232011-09-27T01:27:00.000-07:002011-09-27T03:51:29.977-07:00Comet Elenin is still out there!
Here is a video from STEREO A HI1.
Download this AVI video. I wanted to post this to my Youtube but
Youtube compresses it and once compressed you cannot see it. What is
it? Comet Elenin, traversing quickly, center right of screen and moving from
right to left. You can see it just barely! But it is there! This
was from the 14th of September to the 22nd
James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-88341541365997426542011-09-22T22:49:00.000-07:002011-09-22T22:49:44.962-07:00Is comet Elenin disintegrating or is something else happening?
I've been thinking about the CME event
that contacted comet Elenin on the 19th of August and have
wondered if the CME somehow caused the decrease in observable
activity as well as the elongation of the inner coma seen for a few
days after the event. Had there been no CME event I would, like
everyone else, assume that what we were seeing was the result of an
ordinary breakup and disintegrationJames William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-51038932171822098362011-08-30T12:00:00.000-07:002011-08-30T12:00:07.613-07:00Is NASA spacecraft observatory STEREO Behind HI-1 camera watching comet Elenin fade? Over the last week or so the astronomical community has been abuzz about comet Elenin and its apparent fading as imaged from earth. Currently best observed from the Southern hemisphere, a small number of Australian observers have reported a diffusion and decrease in brightness of the inner coma. This is a sign that comet Elenin is running low on the volatiles necessary to keep it actively James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-24971114839638958862011-08-13T22:13:00.000-07:002011-08-13T22:20:59.824-07:00ALERT! ALERT! EARTH IS PASSING THROUGH THE DEBRIS TRAIL OF A COMET!
Just kidding! =D There's nothing to be alarmed about! Some doomsayers have stated that we are going to go through the debris trail of comet Elenin, we're not, but even if we were I just wanted to take a moment to say that we do that all the time. We go through the debris trails of comets dozens of times each year. Right now we are going through the debris trail of James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-29030280961205395742011-08-09T21:29:00.000-07:002011-08-09T21:31:45.661-07:00An enhanced animation from the STEREO B comet Elenin data of August 7th.
I wanted to see how it would look with the coma and tail enhanced and enlarged. You can barely see it but comet Elenin is just starting to show a tiny tail. =)
James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-39553128191776396552011-08-05T21:21:00.000-07:002011-08-05T21:23:01.908-07:00How to download and process your own STEREO data of comet Elenin
Just today the STEREO data for comet Elenin started being officially published and I wanted to show how and where to go to get it for those interested. The images are stored at the Solar Heliospheric Activity Research & Prediction Program section on the United States Naval Research Laboratory servers and the search form can be found here.
As you can see there are a lot of parameters that James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-79956943882702368842011-08-02T21:48:00.000-07:002011-08-05T21:08:21.440-07:00Comet Elenin as imaged by NASA spacecraft STEREO BAfter much planning, a spacecraft that normally looks at the sun called STEREO B was rotated downward and caught comet Elenin with one of its onboard cameras. Comet Elenin is the fuzz ball moving in the center of the animation.
&James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-73166606118373065352011-05-20T07:56:00.000-07:002011-05-30T11:02:58.714-07:00Is Nostradamus' Mabus referring to Ray Mabus and comet Elenin or was it pope Clement XIII and the great comet of 1769?
When I was 13 years old, now 46, I experienced an event where I was able to see the future. I was in woodshop class and a person across the room from me was sawing a piece of wood on a table saw. Then an increasingly loud roaring jet like sound came into my mind as I was looking down and sanding a spice rack that I was making with an electric sander. The jet like sound increased in intensity James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-39859938882854665142011-05-12T04:20:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:27:40.770-07:00Stifled behind the scenes debate related to the brightness of comet EleninIn my blog before last I sparked a little bit of excitement on a comet related Yahoo group. Someone had spotted my outrageous claim of magnitude -20 brightness for comet Elenin during conjunction and posted it in the group. I then saw in my blog stats people coming to my blog from that group and so I went and checked it out. I read through the thread, which can be seen here, andJames William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-18312425354961844302011-05-04T23:22:00.000-07:002011-05-04T23:43:40.216-07:00NASA/JPL makes first statement about comet Elenin!What did they have to say? They basically said that comet Elenin will be a non event as far as the public interest is concerned. Or in other words, you won't be able to see comet Elenin at all with the unaided eye.
Which, if you'll recall, is the exact opposite of what I said in my blog two days ago! =D And the statement isn't coming from some Joe Blow at NASA/JPL, its coming from Don Yeomans James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-33935965962859207892011-05-02T16:57:00.000-07:002011-05-04T23:44:14.741-07:00We may be able to see comet Elenin in the day time!Leonid Elenin spent a great deal of time searching for a comet and finally found one! That is quite an exciting achievement these days when there are so many eyes looking for comets every night, including robotic eyes! And then even more exiting, to learn that your comet could end up being what's known as a great comet. Great comets are comets that get bright enough that it is plainly visible James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4485027634386552098.post-54383395687118256612011-04-23T12:17:00.000-07:002011-08-17T07:52:42.864-07:00Comet Elenin alignments and earthquakesIn regards to recent discussions about the alignments of comet Elenin and major earthquakes, I find it very interesting. This all mainly started when an astute Youtuber noticed a correlation of alignment as related to the Chilean earthquake of 2010. She had been evolving her theory for weeks and I remember seeing her refined video the day she posted it as I was and still am following James William Kincaid IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09513454140114059790noreply@blogger.com2