brocknroller
porromaniac
Brock,
Things are not looking too good for ISON today. See here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/comets-ml/conversations/topics/22461
But, since the death certificate hasn't been officially signed it might pull through yet.
If there's still a comet to see on Thanksgiving Day the finder chart below should be useful. For those of us in the eastern US the 1 PM PST position will be at 4 PM EST and I think the chart should be tilted clockwise for us (maybe 20-30º), so the comet should be N to NNW of the sun. If it's there it might be shining at about magnitude -5 or -6, so much too dim to be seen with a solar filter. I plan to take my chances standing just inside the sun's shadow from a sw corner of a building.
Henry
Thanks, I will try between 2 and 3 p.m. The problem is that the sun is so low in the sky by that time that the tree line might be in the way of the house. I might have to pull the car around front and use it to shield the sun by putting the fold out sun "visor" in the back window. This might be my last chance to see it before it breaks up.
Brock