Comet ISON
Taken by Jim Saueressig II on November 28, 2013 @ Burlington, KS
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Comet ISON Locator for November 28th 2013 - When Next to the Sun. Times are CST DO NOT USE BINOCULARS OR A TELESCOPE TO ATTEMPT TO SEE THE COMET WHEN IT IS NEAR THE SUN. Permanent eye damage and or blindness will be the end result. Use a stationary object like a sign, water tower, building, chimney etc to block the sun.
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Can this really be done with no binoculars or telescope....if we block the sun...however needed, we can see this with the naked eye?
Posted by VomitComet 2013-11-25 10:43:06
Thanks will try using welding glasses from Venus transit.
Posted by bagelverse 2013-11-25 12:50:20
I personally dont think we will see it, especially with the news today that is stating that the nucleus might be gone, that the comet has disintegrated... If it had made it to the original expected magnitude or something unexpected happened as it was passing the Sun things might have been different.
Posted by Jsauerii 2013-11-25 18:22:31
Modern welding glasses are not safe enough to look at the Sun. The older #14 glasses I think had a gold coating on them that made them relatively safe. Modern #14s do not have this.
Posted by Vumurt 2013-11-26 14:51:48
@bagelverse - if you use welding glasses (or any other dark filter) to dim the sun, then theyll equally dim the comet as well!

The only way you might see something is to do as Jim says: block the sun behind an opaque building/structure, and examine the unblocked & unfiltered sky nearby.
Posted by raybutler 2013-11-27 03:58:56
 
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