"The dark 'clouds' of stuff you see coming from the right are density enhancements in the solar wind, and these are what are causing all the ripples you see in comet Encke's tail," explains Karl Battams of NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign. "I can pretty much promise you that we're going to see ISON's tail doing that in a couple of day's time, but on a much larger scale!"
Battams points out another exciting development: Comet Encke and Comet ISON are converging for a photogenic close encounter. "No they're not going to hit each other - in reality they are millions of miles apart - but as seen from the STEREO-A spacecraft, they are going to get very close!" he says. "We are probably a couple of days away from seeing two comets almost side-by-side in that camera, with long tails flowing behind them in the solar wind. To say that such an image will be unprecedented is rather an understatement." Stay tuned for that.
5 days 21 hours until ISON perihelion.
I wish we had clear sky to the East the next few days, it should be visible in binoculars at least just before sunrise.
Its coming, if it survives the slingshot around the Sun!
2 days 18 hours 54 min until perihelion
Is anyone going out to look at it
I havent seen it yet. In what section of the sky should I be looking?
