Good news...
As mentioned in the last news item, the SWAN instrument on-board SOHO recently discovered it eighth comet. The good news is that this comet will definitely be crossing both LASCO C3 and C2! Unfortunately, the comet is remaining relatively faint (about mag 9 as of late-July, 2006), and will not reach perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) until a few weeks after it has left the LASCO field of view, so we are quite confident that this will not be a sensational comet transit. However, even at its current brightness it should show up in the images.
So, where and when will it appear? Well, the below images show the approximate path of the comet through our images. (Note that subsequent alterations to the current orbit, could change these times by as much as a few hours and the positions by as much as a few pixels.)
(The origin text is from http://ares.nrl.navy.mil/sungrazer/index.php?p=latest_news) |
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