{"id":4984,"date":"2013-10-20T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2013-10-20T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T16:30:10","slug":"comet-ison-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4984","title":{"rendered":"Comet ISON update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comet ISON (C\/2012 S1<\/a>) could become visible to low power telescopes and binoculars, and maybe even to the naked eye, in the next few weeks. The website\u00a0The ISON Atlas<\/a>\u00a0aims to help people find out\u00a0“Where to find Comet ISON in the sky”. The post for this month:\u00a0OCTOBER 2013 | The ISON Atlas<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s an image of the comet taken by Adam Block at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter\/University of Arizona<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Comet ISON (C\/2012 S1)<\/a><\/div>\n

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Comet ISON (C\/2012 S1) could become visible to low power telescopes and binoculars, and maybe even to the naked eye, in the next few weeks. The website\u00a0The ISON Atlas\u00a0aims to help people find out\u00a0“Where to find Comet ISON in the sky”. The post for this month:\u00a0OCTOBER 2013 | The ISON Atlas Here’s an image of … Continue reading Comet ISON update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1io","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5274,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5274","url_meta":{"origin":4984,"position":0},"title":"Comets ISON and Lovejoy in timelapse video","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Photographer\u00a0Justin Ng\u00a0created these\u00a0timelapse sequences of Comet ISON and Comet Lovejoy\u00a0images (via\u00a0Universe Today). 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