Photographer

Michael Madsen

Location

Stony Ridge Observatory California

Date

11/18/07 - 1:22 am PST

Equipment

Pentax 100 SDUF II F/4 Nikon D200 AP 900 QMD head 30 sec. unguided exposure.

Description

Comet Holmes, similar to the visual view in the same scope.

Photographer

Cristiano Fumagalli

E-mail

fumagallic@tiscali.it

Location

Castione della Presolana (BG), Italy

Date

November, 3 2007. h 22,30 UT

Equipment

Telescope: Meade 12" LX 200 CCD Starlite Xpress SXL8

Description

Sum of six frmes. Exp.: 15 seconds each frame

Photographer

Tim Jensen

E-mail

tjensen03@gmail.com

Location

Saxapahaw, North Carolina

Date

11/11/07 10PM EST

Equipment

Photographed using Orion 80ED telescope piggybacked on 10"LX200GPS and Canon Rebel XT (modified)

Description

Comet Holmes from North Carolina. The comet's central condensation is evident with a more intense trailing component and broad circular coma.

Photographer

Michael Boschat

E-mail

aa063@chebucto.ns.ca

Location

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Date

Nov.19,2007 at 2215 UT

Equipment

Olympus C-750 Digital Camera mounted on tripod.

Description

Through light pollution,Moonlight,clouds I managed to take 3 exposures then stacked them with Registax plus I had to really go with contrast! Images were all 16sec exposure at 35x zoom and f/3.7 at 400 ISO. You can **just** make out the coma on the star.

Photographer

Bill Logan

E-mail

wb9sat@frontiernet.net

Location

Eagar, Arizona

Date

7:00pm local 11-17-2007 (0200 UTC 11-18-2007)

Equipment

This single 60-second exposure was taken with a Canon EOS Rebel XT (350D) through an Astro-Tech 66ED refractor.

Description

Comet Holmes 17/P passed the 1.78 magnitude star, Mirphak on it's journey to perihelion. North is up.

Photographer

Bashar Markabawi

E-mail

markabawi@yahoo.com

Location

Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Date

November 17, 2007 10:00Pm MST.

Equipment

William Optics 80 mm doublet with X0.8 focal reducer. Canon EOS Camera modified by Hap Grifin. Mount EQ3 orion motorized. Total Exposure is 3 minutes unguided.

Description

The comet was very close to Mirfak in Perseid. This picture is not processed only resized by Photoshop Adobe.

Photographer

Bruno HUGUET

E-mail

huguetaiken@bellsouth.net

Location

AIKEN, SC, USA

Date

19 November 2007, 11:00 pm

Equipment

Astro-Tech AT66ED @ 200mm f/3 mounted on MEADE 12'LX90 ORION Star Shoot Deep Space Color Imaging Camera 20 x 40mm non guided

Description

This night, Holmes was crossing Matelote 20 in Perseus coming very close to Mirfak

Photographer

Ed Johnson

Location

Los Angeles, California

Date

11/16/07 11pst

Equipment

6 inch Schmidt Newtonian on homemade crystal controlled right ascension platform. Canon Rebel RAW X11 1600 30s

Description

Comet Holmes increased brightness by a factor of about a million, going from magnitude 17 to 2. This makes it visible to the unaided eye as well as binoculars and telescopes.

Photographer

Owe Dahren

Location

Kumla Sweden

Date

Oct 24 to Nov 11

Equipment

Pentax *istDS with 135 mm lens

Description

The image shows the position and brightness of Comet Holmes between October 24 and November 11. All images have been processed identically.

Photographer

scott nagel

E-mail

pwv@ix.netcom.com

Location

new york city

Date

11/11/2007

Equipment

nikon d50 iso1600 noise reduction on, raw format, 30second exposure at prime focus (2000mm) celestron c-8 unguided.

Description

This is the same photo posted earlier, but I'm getting familiar with regisatx tools..this is an RGB adjustment..what a difference!