Photographer

Richard S. Bell

Location

Kalamazoo, MI

Date

11/30/2007 @ 10:00 pm EST

Equipment

Tele Vue Pronto 70 mm refractor (with Focal Reducer/Field Flattener) and Canon 300D piggybacked on 12" LX200

Description

This was my first chance to capture an image of Comet Holmes in over a month (Michigan weather can be very cruel). I'm glad it's still putting on a great show!

Photographer

Herb Bubert

E-mail

Budboy49@aol.com

Location

Derry, NH

Date

11-05-07 9:25 P.M.

Equipment

11" Starmaster ELT, Tom'O equatorial platform, Nikon Coolpix 4500, 18mm Radian

Description

Comet Holmes continues to grow in size.

Photographer

David Ratledge

E-mail

davidr@deep-sky.co.uk

Location

Lancashire, UK

Date

Nov 5th 2007, 22:25

Equipment

12.5 inch RCOS at f/6.7 and Canon 300D DSLR 11 x 2 minute exposures

Description

Rotational gradient filter (centered on the nucleus) has been used. This produces some artifacts but reveals detail otherwise invisible. Note full resolution version available

Photographer

Robert Seeley

Location

Ithaca, New York

Date

Nov 2, 2007 11:21 PM

Equipment

Old Orange Tube C8 with fork mount. F10 focal length. Single 10 second exposure with SBIG ST9E.

Description

Right side is image processed with AIP$WIN wavelet filter.

Photographer

Chandrashekar

E-mail

chandrainsky@yahoo.com

Location

Bangalore, India

Date

7th Nov 2007 at 18 hours GMT

Equipment

Canon 400D on tripod, no tracking. 170-500 Sigma lens at 201 mm. 15 sec exp, ISO1600, f/5.6. Under City lights.

Description

Comet Holmes picture taken using standard camera equipment. Comet was easily visible through naked eye in spite of city light pollution.

Photographer

Mike Mosier

E-mail

mikemosier@zianet.com

Location

Alamogordo NM

Date

10/30/07

Equipment

10" Meade Telescope and DSI Camera with stacked 4 second exposures

Description

This was taken at 9:00 PM in the evening from my Observatory located in the center of town. The moon was down, so I was able to get a great photo. We have relatively dark sky's even in town.

Photographer

Paul Seifert

Location

Moorhead, MN

Date

9:00pm, Oct. 29

Equipment

Pentax K100D at prime focus on a JMI NGT-18 newtonian. 10 seconds at 1600 ISO.

Description

Taken on Concordia College's 18-inch Newtonian in south Moorhead, it's Comet Holmes during a star party we had for students. Most had never seen a comet before, especially this nicely through a telescope. You can see a little of the orange haze of light pollution creeping in.

Photographer

Olivier Biot

E-mail

olivier.biot@gmail.com

Location

Hove (Antwerpen)

Date

Tue 30 Oct 2007 around 22:00 local time

Equipment

Astro-Tech AT80ED refractor on an Orion Sirius EQ-G mount, at prime focus with a Canon EOS 350D DSLR.

Description

One week after Comet Holmes' spectacular October 2007 outburst, it's at last clear for one night. The comet is This image was produced by stacking five 8 second exposures with Registax. No other processing appplied.

Photographer

Deepak

Location

South London

Date

01/11/2007 11:24 p.m

Equipment

Nikon D70s Digitial SLR on a tripod using Nikon 70mm at f4.5, 10 seconds exposure at ISO 1000

Photographer

Joel Hatfield

Location

Merrimack, New Hampshire

Date

1 Nov 2007 9:30pm EDT

Equipment

Vixen 80edsf refractor and Canon 350D piggybacked on Meade LX200 mount on wedge and pier.

Description

Comet Holmes from 1 Nov 2007 imaged from my home in Turkey Hill Observatory in Merrimack New Hampshire. Twenty stacked 12 second images at iso 1600.