{"id":317605,"date":"2024-04-14T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=317605"},"modified":"2024-04-14T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:00:48","slug":"this-comet-did-not-survive-the-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=317605","title":{"rendered":"This Comet Did Not Survive the\u00a0Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Spaceweather.com <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By DR.TONY PHILLIPS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 10, 2024:\u00a0<\/strong>(Spaceweather.com<\/a>) Astronomer Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab predicted that a sungrazing comet might be visible during Monday\u2019s total eclipse. He was right. Chinese amateur astronomer Lin Zixuan was in New Hampshire for the eclipse, and he photographed the disintegrating comet:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Named \u201cSOHO-5008\u201d, the comet had been discovered earlier the same day by amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod, who noticed it in SOHO<\/a> coronagraph<\/a> images. Battams quickly realized that the comet might be bright enough to photograph in the otherworldly twilight of the Moon\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGround-based observations of sungrazing comets are extremely rare, so this would be a great opportunity to see an eclipse comet!\u201d says Battams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon after Zixuan photographed the comet, it disintegrated. SOHO has\u00a0seen this happen<\/a>\u00a0more than 5000 times. Most\u00a0doomed sungrazers<\/a>\u00a0(including this one) are members of the Kreutz family. Named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet ~2000 years ago. Several fragments pass by the sun and disintegrate every day, although most are too small to see.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Above:<\/strong>\u00a0A SOHO coronagraph image of the disintegrating comet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Battams can recall only two other examples of sungrazers seen during a solar eclipse\u2013 one in 2020<\/a> (also a Worachate Boonplod discovery) and another in 2008<\/a>. \u201d I think with modern imaging equipment and techniques, seeing a sungrazer during an eclipse is no longer hugely challenging, but it does require one crucial ingredient: the right comet at the right time. We got lucky this week!\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best picture, so far, of the sungrazer comes from Petr Hor\u00e1lek of Institute of Physics in Opava, who was in Durango, Mexico, for the eclipse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI got especially lucky with this shot with the comet SOHO-5008, which was discovered just before the eclipse,\u201d says Hor\u00e1lek. \u201cIt was truly windy and partly cloudy, totality took 3 minutes and 25 seconds and the image is the result of HDR shooting (exposure from 1\/4000 s to 2s). A total of 83 usable images were used (dark frames and flat fields applied).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Astronomer Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab predicted that a sungrazing comet might be visible during Monday\u2019s total eclipse. He was right. Chinese amateur astronomer Lin Zixuan was in New Hampshire for the eclipse, and he photographed the disintegrating comet:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":317615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691828123,691828125,691828124,691828126],"class_list":{"0":"post-317605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-astronomer-karl-battams","9":"tag-lin-zixuan","10":"tag-naval-research-lab","11":"tag-soho-5008","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Screenshot-2024-04-14-085847.png?fit=1183%2C753&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1kCF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":270752,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=270752","url_meta":{"origin":317605,"position":0},"title":"A Comet Shaped Like the Millennium\u00a0Falcon","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/08\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"(Spaceweather.com) Until a few days ago, Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks looked like a perfectly ordinary comet. 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