
Moderator: jkien

While it is conceivable that small chunks of ISON's nucleus still exist, that possibility looks increasingly unlikely and it is with more than a little sadness that we have to declare the comet lost.
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30/11: the remnant of comet ISON is a faint, diffuse, cloud with no obvious central condensation. An approximate visual magnitude estimate is around +7.5, but this is value obtained "by eye" as no central condensation exists to enable aperture photometry.