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Photographer

George Edge

Location

Stockport UK

Date

3 November 2007 23: 00 UT

Equipment

Skywatcher 250Px Newtonian EQ6 Pro Mount Canon 300D (unmodded)

Description

Comet Holmes 17P on the night of November 3rd 2007 from my back garden obsevatory under moderately light polluted skys. Fog was a problem that night and I managed over an hour to take 25 30 sec exposures ISO400 which were stacked using DSS and processed using Adobe CS3
 

Photographer

Robert Townsend

Location

Placerville Ca

Date

nov 4

Equipment

Takahashi E200 F4 hyperbolic astrograph and homemade GEM- Modified Canon 350 D

Description

composite image consisting of 8x20 sec, 8x40 sec, 8x80 sec, 8x 120 sec, 8x240 sec, and 13x 600 sec.
 

Photographer

Todd Vance

Location

Bowie, MD

Date

10/28/2007 at 7:38pm

Equipment

tripod-mounted, 53 exposures, each Canon EOS Digital REbel XTi, f/13, 2 sec., ISO-1600, zoom lens at 300mm, stacked with MLUnsold's ImagePlus

Description

Comet 17P/Holmes the first clear night since it erupted
 

Photographer

Pat Pinnell

Location

Little Indian Creek Conservation Area, Franklin Co. Mo.

Date

Nov. 04, 2007

Equipment

Meade 10" S/N reflector on a Losmandy G11 mount Canon EOS 300D at Prime Focus ISO 400 - F/4 15sec. X 72 - 18min.

Description

In dark skies comet 17P/Holmes lies along the plane of the MilkyWay
 

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

11/05/07 03:00 ut

Equipment

WO ZenithStar 80ED APO, f6.8, Celestron CGE mount, DMK21AF04 Ccd Imager, SBIG ST402ME Guider.

Description

This was taken with the DMK21AF04 Ccd it's a video of over 1 hr taken at 15 seconds per frame a total of 302 frames taken and making a 10second video. Comet was tracked by the ST402me as a guider. Processed with Registax 4. Notice the diffuse coma at aprox. 270 deg. with a whip motion and clearly shows the core of the comet.
 

Photographer

John Tipton

Location

Ocean Shores, WA

Date

11/05/07 11:00 pm

Equipment

Celestron CPC 1100 telescope with f/6.3 focal reducer, Maxxum 7D DSLR, average of ten 30 sec exposures.

Description

Comet 17P/Holmes taken just before our typical coastal fog moved in.
 

Photographer

Robert English

Location

Franklin, TN

Date

11-02-2007

Equipment

Orion Starblast modified for 2"focuser and Televue Paracor, coupled to Nikon D70 at 800ASA. Ten 220 second exposures averaged mixed 90/10 with twenty-five 42 second exposures to hold detail in nucleus.

Description

Image shows faint blue ion tail streamers peaking out from behind head of comet.
 

Photographer

Jason Higley

Location

Central Florida, my driveway

Date

November 4th, 2007

Equipment

Criterion RV-6 (a 6" newtonian) on a Criterion mount. Kodak EasyShare Z730 (a 5 megapixel family camera.) Shot afocally using Orion SteadyPix and a 15mm eyepiece.

Description

Comet Holmes 17P
 

Photographer

John Ayotte

E-mail

john@jmadesign.com

Location

New Albany, OH

Date

11/03/07 23:34 est

Equipment

Orion 120ST Refractor on Skyview Pro, Orion Hilight Plossel 32mm, Scoptronix MaxDSL, Nikon D80, 2 min exposure ISO 400, no noise reduction

Description

My first astrophoto
 

Photographer

Lanny Harwell

Location

Arlington ,Texas - Backyard

Date

11/3/07 at 0731 UTC

Equipment

10" SCT OTA on Losmandy G11 mount. SBIG 7XME CCD camera with CFW-8 and standard RGB filtrs. Optec NextGen Maxfield 0.33 Telecompressor.

Description

Composed of 16 Luminance and 13 RGB each. All were 4 second exposures. Aligned, stacked and processed in Maxim DL. Wanted to get more data but the clouds moved in. Darn ! ! !
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