Photographer

Greg Cranwell

E-mail

azpaleo@cox.net

Location

Tucson, Arizona

Date

10/28/07

Equipment

Meade LXD 75 10" Schmidt Newtonian with Canon 1DS Mark II and Televue Powrmate 4x barlow

Description

I believe this is a possible breakup of Comet Holmes. This is a photo wich seems to show more than one come in the central region of Comet Holmes (two main bright pieces and one smaller). My guess is that if this is the photo of a comet breakup, that might explain why the comet got so bright "unexplainebly" and then started to dim tonight. On October 26, 2007 at about 8:00 PM PST my exposure was 15 seconds at f/4 and 200 ISO and one bright single coma. Tonight (October 28) at the same time with darker skies (no moon) my exposure was 45 seconds at ISO 800 !!! No clouds and no moon, but 2 bright centers and a dimmer one all within the center region.

Photographer

William McMullen

E-mail

perseus475@hotmail.com

Location

Orleans, Ontario, Canada

Date

28/10/2007 at 9:20pm

Equipment

Canon Rebel XT piggybacked on my C8N with a Sigma 70-300 @ 190mm, F5, ISO 800 for 20 seconds.

Description

An expanding Comet Holmes continues to impress!

Photographer

Roger Coudé

Location

St-Jean-sur-Richelieu

Date

Oct-28-2007 at 21h-22h Eeastern

Equipment

Correction to my last, the addiditionnal bright objects where some background stars, as seens on this animation

Photographer

Neil Thomas

Location

Mount Laurel, NJ

Date

27Oct2007 02:55UT

Equipment

Celestron CPC1100 with Nikon D70. Median combination of 26 4 second exposures at 1600 ISO. No filters.

Photographer

Johnie K Gibbs

E-mail

johniegibbs@yahoo.com

Location

Rural Shelby Co. KY

Date

28 Oct. 2007 8:43 pm

Equipment

LXD75 SN-10AT UHTC and Meade LPI

Description

This is a composite of 200 1 sec. images stacked and alinged in Autostar Envisage. This is the raw image no other pocessing was done.

Photographer

Tom Laskowski

E-mail

mrtsp91@netscape.com

Location

South Bend, IN

Date

28 Oct. 2007 0315 UT

Equipment

Olympus c-4000 Zoom digital camera, tripod mounted, 16 sec. exposure at f/2.8 ISO 400

Description

Comet Holmes has brightened to rival Alpha Persei and now is large enough to begin to show hints of being non-stellar to the naked eye. Bright enough to be easily visible despite the nearly full Moon.

Photographer

Glenn MJ Marsden

E-mail

elysium@hotmail.com

Location

Hoober, UK

Date

28/10/07 @ 22:00

Equipment

Meade 10" with a Canon 20D

Description

Comet 17P/Holmes is very easy to find this evening with the naked eye. "This is unbelievable!"

Photographer

Adrian Huestis

E-mail

jajah07@gmail.com

Location

Stittsville ON

Date

October 28 2007 9:15 PM

Equipment

6" Dob with Canon A60 set to 4 seconds at 200 ISO.

Description

Tonight I observed comet Holmes with two bright dots near the center of the comet. You can see these two dots in the picture. There is no tracking so there is a timy bit of tracking. I did not see these dots on previous viewings.

Photographer

Thomas Knoblauch

Location

Jona, Switzerland

Date

October, the 28 1007 around 21:30

Equipment

Meade 2080 (8"SC with F=2m) Canon 250d Registax 4 and Photoshop

Description

The great unexpected 17P/Holmes

Photographer

Chris Bosshard

Location

Gossau ZH Switzerland

Date

28.10.2007/ 21:30-22:30

Equipment

William Optics Megrez 90, Orion Sky View Pro, Imaging Source Firewire camera. 20x5s images recoreded and stacked using Astro IICD.

Description

Comet 17P/Homes is incredibly bright, the brightest comet I have seen since Hale-Bopp! Even in bright moonlight the comet can be seen without optical aid. :-)