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Comet Holmes (Nov. 7-21, 2007)

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Photographer

Francis Dunlop

Location

Calgary, AB

Date

10-Nov-2007 11:40pm MST

Equipment

Canon Rebel XTi, Canon EF 70mm-200mm f/4 L lense. Lense at 200mm (320mm equiv on 35mm film). ISO-1600. 5 second exposure per image. Stack of 16 images using DeepSkyStacker. Camera mounted on fixed tripod.

Description

Shows Comet Holmes. You can see a few stars through the dust cloud. The original photos were quite noisy at ISO-1600 but stacking cleaned it up A LOT. Photos were taken in my backyard in downtown Calgary. Night was quite clear - for a city of 1,000,000 people.
 

Photographer

Jesper Gronne

Location

Denmark

Date

Nov. 10. 2007

Equipment

NexStar 8 GPS, focal reducer f/6,3 Canon 1D markIII, NO filters, 14 bit RAW, white balance @ 2724 k.

Description

The comet is blue @ 2724 k, NO filters are used, and the color is not false produced in Photoshop.
 

Photographer

Jordi Solaz

E-mail

jordisolaz@gmail.com

Location

Caldes de Montbui - Catalunya - Spain

Date

2007-11-9 22:00UT

Equipment

Canon EOS 10D at prime focus of Meade LXD75 6" newtonian telescope.

Description

Stack of 6 pictures of 30s exposute time each. Software Registax for processing. Urban site with lots of light pollution.
 

Photographer

Wojciech Piskorz

E-mail

wojpisk@wp.pl

Location

Gliwice, Poland

Date

10.11.2007

Equipment

Canon 350D, Sonnar180, ISO800, f5,6, 8x120sec.

Description

...in holes in clouds.
 

Photographer

Apostolos Kavalieris

Location

Agrinio Greece

Date

11/5/2007 19:40 local time

Equipment

Meade lx200 12"gps.Atik 16hr,expos:12x1min luminocity only. Mx7c starlight+star 2000 autoguiding and Celestron refractor80.
 

Photographer

Emiel Kempen

Location

Hoogeveen, The Netherlands

Date

2007-11-07 23:20 Local Time

Equipment

(Self) Modified Canon 350D through a 6" Meade Schmidt Newton on a SkyWatcher HEQ6 Pro, autoguided with a SBIG ST4

Description

It's a 600 seconds ISO 800 image of 17P/Holmes. The image was heavily processed to reveal the tail of the comet. Due to cloudy weather I could take only one 600 seconds shot.
 

Photographer

Raymond Lessard

Location

Charny PQ Canada

Date

November 2d 20:16

Equipment

The picture was taken with a Meade deep sky Camera mounted on a Sky watcher SKP2001EQ5.

Description

it as taken on Friday November 2d at 20:16 Hrs. The photo is a composite of 125 frames taken with 1 a second exposure time. the photo was taken from my backyard in Charny province de Québec.
 

Photographer

David Otto

E-mail

d.otto1@comcast.net

Location

Bartlett, IL USA

Date

11-09-07 9:57 pm CST

Equipment

Nikon D100 on a 4 inch Apogee refractor

Description

Top is a 30 second image in clear skies. Bottom is a 120 second image through light cloud cover comparing comet size change for 8 days.
 

Photographer

Joao Clerigo

E-mail

jac@gem51.com

Location

M.Grande - Portugal

Date

2007/11/10

Equipment

Canon EOS400D + Vixen NewAtlux ED102SS @ f/4.33

Description

Comet 17PHolmes
 

Photographer

Norm Fredrick

Location

Claremont NH

Date

Nov 9 2007 8:45 PM

Equipment

Meade LXd55 SN10 Meade DSI Pro

Description

The comet keeps changing day by day. It is easily visible by naked eye under dark conditions
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