{"id":1149,"date":"2020-04-10T00:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2020-04-15T06:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T11:21:51","slug":"comet-c-2019-y4-disintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/2020\/04\/10\/comet-c-2019-y4-disintegration\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2019 Y4 disintegration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"321\" height=\"210\" data-src=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2020-Y4-12min.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1146\" class=\"wp-image-1146 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2020-Y4-12min.jpg 321w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2020-Y4-12min-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2020-Y4-12min-150x98.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 321px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 321\/210;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"321\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2020-Y4-12min.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1146\" class=\"wp-image-1146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2020-Y4-12min.jpg 321w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2020-Y4-12min-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2020-Y4-12min-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">disintegrating comet C\/2019 Y4<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Comet C\/2019 Y4 held promise to be a spectacular comet,  possibly visible to the naked eye in May 2020.  Unfortunately as a lot of comets  passing close to the sun,  Comet C\/2019 Y4 is beginning to disintegrate.  This image of the comet was taken the evening of April 9th, (April 10 U.T.) with the Little Blue 22&#8243; at Sandlot Observatory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see the small star-like  piece that has broken away from the main nucleus.   It is located just left and above the rest of the nuclear region.   Once the flurry of activity subsides the comet will not likely become any brighter an average passing comet of roughly 9th to 10th magnitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Details;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color\">22&#8243; f4.1 reflector imaging at prime focus with a ST10XME CCD Camera.  The image was comprised of a  stack of 24 &#8211; 30 second images .  Each image was offset in the direction of the comet&#8217;s motion via Astrometrica.   The image above was cropped out of the original 22 x 14 arc-minute field of view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2019-Y4-8min.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1152 lazyload\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2019-Y4-8min.jpg 321w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2019-Y4-8min-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2019-Y4-8min-150x98.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/419;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2019-Y4-8min.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1152\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2019-Y4-8min.jpg 321w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2019-Y4-8min-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/C2019-Y4-8min-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>image taken 4-15-20.  about 3 U.T.  from Sandlot Obs. \n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>C\/2019 Y4 Image taken  Apr 15 &#8211; changing  fragmentation .    There are now several components to the nucleus.   One bright fragment in the left and a smaller fragment just below the bright one (barley discernible in the image) and a fainter condensation further toward the tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet C\/2019 Y4 held promise to be a spectacular comet, possibly visible to the naked eye in May 2020. Unfortunately as a lot of comets passing close to the sun, Comet C\/2019 Y4 is beginning to disintegrate. This image of the comet was taken the evening of April 9th, (April 10 U.T.) with the Little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/2020\/04\/10\/comet-c-2019-y4-disintegration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comet C\/2019 Y4 disintegration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}