Posted on Aug 12, 2020
APOD: 2020 August 12 - The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE." All I can say is I'm glad someone got to see this. Taken outside Barcelona, Spain, this five-image composite shows the comet as it moved past the Big Dipper and out of our Solar System. The shifting ion tail (the smaller tail on the left) indicates just how far the Earth moved relative to the Sun from July 17 to July 25. Mouse over the APOD page (not the image) and you can see the Sun's position superimposed at the base of Turó de l'Home Mountain.
APOD: 2020 August 12 - The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE
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Wolfenstein: The New Order (Soundtrack) - The Comet Tails - Weltraumsurfen
A piece of the music from the fictional recording-company "Neumond Recordings" set in the Wolfenstein: The New Order universe. I claim no copyright whatsoeve...
Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Wednesday, August 12, 2020 entitled "The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE."
Image: The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE - Image Credit & Copyright - Ignacio Llorens
APOD Background
"Explanation: Keep your eye on the ion tail of Comet NEOWISE. A tale of this tail is the trail of the Earth. As with all comets, the blue ion tail always points away from the Sun. But as Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rounded our Sun, its ion tail pointed in slightly different directions. This is because between 2020 July 17 and July 25 when the featured images were taken, the Earth moved noticeably in its orbit around the Sun. But the Earth's motion made the Sun appear to shift in the sky. So even though you can't see the Sun directly in the featured image(s), the directions of the ion tails reveal this apparent solar shift. The Sun's apparent motion is in the ecliptic, the common plane where all planets orbit. The featured five image composite was meticulously composed to accurately place each comet image -- and the five extrapolated solar positions -- on a single foreground image of Turó de l'Home Mountain, north of Barcelona, Spain Comet NEOWISE is no longer the impressive naked-eye object it was last month, but it can still be found with a small telescope as it heads back to the outer Solar System."
Wolfenstein: The New Order (Soundtrack) - The Comet Tails - Weltraumsurfen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKUuA4B7qQw
FYI Maj Robert Thornton Lt Col Charlie Brown COL Mikel J. Burroughs Sgt (Join to see) PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SP5 Mark Kuzinski Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SGT Denny Espinosa SSG Michael Noll Cpl (Join to see) Sgt Vance Bonds MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Sgt Jim Belanus MSG Felipe De Leon Brown] SPC Nancy Greene Wayne Soares
Image: The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE - Image Credit & Copyright - Ignacio Llorens
APOD Background
"Explanation: Keep your eye on the ion tail of Comet NEOWISE. A tale of this tail is the trail of the Earth. As with all comets, the blue ion tail always points away from the Sun. But as Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rounded our Sun, its ion tail pointed in slightly different directions. This is because between 2020 July 17 and July 25 when the featured images were taken, the Earth moved noticeably in its orbit around the Sun. But the Earth's motion made the Sun appear to shift in the sky. So even though you can't see the Sun directly in the featured image(s), the directions of the ion tails reveal this apparent solar shift. The Sun's apparent motion is in the ecliptic, the common plane where all planets orbit. The featured five image composite was meticulously composed to accurately place each comet image -- and the five extrapolated solar positions -- on a single foreground image of Turó de l'Home Mountain, north of Barcelona, Spain Comet NEOWISE is no longer the impressive naked-eye object it was last month, but it can still be found with a small telescope as it heads back to the outer Solar System."
Wolfenstein: The New Order (Soundtrack) - The Comet Tails - Weltraumsurfen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKUuA4B7qQw
FYI Maj Robert Thornton Lt Col Charlie Brown COL Mikel J. Burroughs Sgt (Join to see) PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SP5 Mark Kuzinski Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SGT Denny Espinosa SSG Michael Noll Cpl (Join to see) Sgt Vance Bonds MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Sgt Jim Belanus MSG Felipe De Leon Brown] SPC Nancy Greene Wayne Soares
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Comet's Tail by Cynthia Alexander
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Comet's Tail by Cynthia Alexander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAkupLteJA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAkupLteJA
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