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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.
 

Photographer

Jay Johnson

E-mail

jjohn01@yahoo.com

Location

Bloomsbury, NJ

Date

10/30/2007 01:04 UTC

Equipment

Meade 8" SCT LXD75 Canon 5D 61 sec 800 ISO

Description

Comet Holmes this past Tuesday evening, getting better every night!
 

Photographer

Svein Torske

Location

Stavanger, Norway

Date

01.nov 1150pm

Equipment

Meade LX90 + Canon Eos Rebel 30 second exposure

Description

Comet Holmes is very close to Zenith around midnight on november 1.st.at 59 deg. north in Stavanger, Norway Easy naked eye target as well
 

Photographer

Bjørk Jensen

E-mail

nova@pc.dk

Location

Jels, South Denmark

Date

30th. oktober @ UT 19.40

Equipment

Vixen 8"f/4 photo-newton R200SS Nikon D80 set. to 800 ISO 19 frames at 20 sek. and 1 frame at 125 sek. for Illumination. Total eksposure : 505 sek. Stack in PhotoShop. No other artwork is done to the frames. Mount : Losmandy G11 Gemini v.3.0

Description

Comet 17P/Holmes. The photo is eksposed to show the Coma and front of behind the comet.
 

Photographer

Julian I. Spring

E-mail

spring42@mindspring.com

Location

Miramar, FL

Date

10/30/07

Equipment

Nikon D200 with Nikon 70-300mm zoom

Description

Comet Holmes
 

Photographer

Peter W. O'Brien

E-mail

pobrien@ll.mit.edu

Location

Derry NH

Date

11/4/07 04:27 - 06:00 UT

Equipment

DSI Pro II behind homebuilt 6" f1.8 astrograph

Description

These two images were (thru trial and error) taken 90min appart. Each image consists of 1 and 8 sec shots combined in PS. To aquire detail of the central nucleus 100 frames were taken in quick succession (again 90 min appart) and wavelet processed in Registax
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