Karl Battams
@sungrazercomets.bsky.social
Astrophysicist. PI of SOHO/LASCO & Sungrazer Project, studying mostly comets, asteroids, Sun and misc heliophysics stuff. Personal account; all opinions mine.
As many have pointed out, the LASCO images on the SOHO website are saturated. So this is the result of my own algo for processing them.
And I will echo my sentiments from yesterday: This. Comet. Is. RIDICULOUS! 🤩😍 ☄️🔭☀️
And I will echo my sentiments from yesterday: This. Comet. Is. RIDICULOUS! 🤩😍 ☄️🔭☀️
January 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As many have pointed out, the LASCO images on the SOHO website are saturated. So this is the result of my own algo for processing them.
And I will echo my sentiments from yesterday: This. Comet. Is. RIDICULOUS! 🤩😍 ☄️🔭☀️
And I will echo my sentiments from yesterday: This. Comet. Is. RIDICULOUS! 🤩😍 ☄️🔭☀️
Short animation of C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) in the Blue filter on our ESA/NASA SOHO/LASCO C3 camera. ☀️🔭 Seeing lots of beautiful striations in the tail! 😍
January 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Short animation of C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) in the Blue filter on our ESA/NASA SOHO/LASCO C3 camera. ☀️🔭 Seeing lots of beautiful striations in the tail! 😍
Eleven years ago today 😳 Comet ISON certainly captured the attention of a global audience! Sadly it didn't survive, but the memories live on! ☄️☀️🔭
November 28, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Eleven years ago today 😳 Comet ISON certainly captured the attention of a global audience! Sadly it didn't survive, but the memories live on! ☄️☀️🔭
And zoomed in on the comet ☄️
Aside: I can never find a good mp4 setting that gives good results for posting LASCO image sequences. This drove me nuts on Twitter, and it's the same here. It's all down to how they compress the data for streaming. If anyone has any recommendations...?
Aside: I can never find a good mp4 setting that gives good results for posting LASCO image sequences. This drove me nuts on Twitter, and it's the same here. It's all down to how they compress the data for streaming. If anyone has any recommendations...?
November 22, 2024 at 4:49 PM
And zoomed in on the comet ☄️
Aside: I can never find a good mp4 setting that gives good results for posting LASCO image sequences. This drove me nuts on Twitter, and it's the same here. It's all down to how they compress the data for streaming. If anyone has any recommendations...?
Aside: I can never find a good mp4 setting that gives good results for posting LASCO image sequences. This drove me nuts on Twitter, and it's the same here. It's all down to how they compress the data for streaming. If anyone has any recommendations...?
Here's the data we have so far showing the new (soon-to-be-vaporized) sungrazing comet in our LASCO C3 field of view. Lots of beautiful CME's kicking off too! 😍
See for yourself at the SOHO movie theater: soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/
See for yourself at the SOHO movie theater: soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/
November 22, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Here's the data we have so far showing the new (soon-to-be-vaporized) sungrazing comet in our LASCO C3 field of view. Lots of beautiful CME's kicking off too! 😍
See for yourself at the SOHO movie theater: soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/
See for yourself at the SOHO movie theater: soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/Theater/
Hey there! 👋 For those that don't know me from the Other Place, I'm a scientist involved in heliophysics space missions, but with an emphasis on observations of comets & asteroids from those missions. So I Tweet...🤔 ...Bleet? 🤷... mostly stuff like this👇 (Comet McNaught in 2007, NASA STEREO-A)
November 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Hey there! 👋 For those that don't know me from the Other Place, I'm a scientist involved in heliophysics space missions, but with an emphasis on observations of comets & asteroids from those missions. So I Tweet...🤔 ...Bleet? 🤷... mostly stuff like this👇 (Comet McNaught in 2007, NASA STEREO-A)