The best images of Comet Elenin in the morning sky were taken from Australia by Michael Mattiazzo, and are on his web site here:
http://members.westnet.com.au/mmatti/sc.…
Had the comet survived the events of the past week (coronal mass ejection and solar perihelion) it would be visible just to the upper left of the Sun here:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/real…
Instead, what you see is Mercury to the Sun's right and the star Zaniah in Virgo to the Sun's left, but no comet. It has disintegrated or is too dim to show up on this camera (fainter than 8th magnitude stars in the picture).
http://members.westnet.com.au/mmatti/sc.…
Had the comet survived the events of the past week (coronal mass ejection and solar perihelion) it would be visible just to the upper left of the Sun here:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/real…
Instead, what you see is Mercury to the Sun's right and the star Zaniah in Virgo to the Sun's left, but no comet. It has disintegrated or is too dim to show up on this camera (fainter than 8th magnitude stars in the picture).
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It ain't around much any more. The sun took care of it when the comet went through perihelion.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing…
http://www.space.com/13045-comet-elenin-…
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing…
http://www.space.com/13045-comet-elenin-…