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Photographer

Alistair MacDonald

Location

Worcester, United Kingdom

Date

2nd November 2007 at 7.00pm

Equipment

Celestron C8 SCT with a Meade DSI II Pro with red, green, blue and H-Alpha filters and an f 3.3 focal reducer.

Description

Image of Comet Holmes in Perseus on 2nd November 2007 at 7.00pm local time.
 

Photographer

Evelyn Lockwood

Location

Deck from home in Frankfort, KY

Date

Oct. 30, '07

Equipment

Pentax 35mm, non-digital. 2.5f, 10 sec.

Description

Northeast section of sky with Perseus and comet Holmes.
 

Photographer

Josep M.

E-mail

astro0903@gmail.com

Location

Corbera-Barcelona-Spain

Date

2007-11-03-22:04UT

Equipment

Nikon D70 with Nikkor 500m reflex (15x) shot at ISO800 cropped from 3000x2000. 30x30 seconds calibrated and aligned on the comet and processed with Images Plus. No further processing (yet)

Description

Easy to spot, with very bright nucleus and "onion layered" coma
 

Photographer

Dave Miller

Location

Barberton Ohio

Date

11/03/07 1:05 AM EST

Equipment

Meade 10" SCT / f6.3 reducer "1575mm" Canon 20D Hutech IDAS LPS Filter 6 x 30 seconds ISO-1600 12 Dark frames 10 Flat frames Processed with Images Plus, Photoshop Elements.

Description

Comet Holmes, background stars through halo.
 

Photographer

Rod Pommier, M.D.

E-mail

pommierr@ohsu.edu

Location

Pommier Observatory, Portland, OR

Date

11/02/2007 07:39 UT

Equipment

Compustar 14 SCT, Canon 20D DSLR, 30 sec exposure, ISO 1600. Processed in MaxDSLR, PhotoShop CS2.

Description

A very unusual comet.
 

Photographer

Patrick McCullough

E-mail

mcculloughred@Aol.com

Location

Denver, Colorado

Date

11-2-07 11:30P.M.

Equipment

Canon EOS 20D camera, 500mm zoom lens set at 500, F5.6, ISO set at 200,exposure 90sec.guided on Celestron 8 inch SCT telescope.

Description

Strangest comet I've ever seen.How bright a view!!
 

Photographer

Bill Richards

Location

Tucson, AZ

Date

22:23:12 MST 11/2/2007

Equipment

William Optics 105mm f/7 Tak EM200 Canon 350D @ prime focus

Description

60 sec. ISO 200
 

Photographer

Steve Connelly

E-mail

steve.connelly@hotmail.com

Location

Sarnia ,Ontario

Date

Nov 3 11:09 pm EST

Equipment

Unguided 55sec exposure through a Nexstar C11 at f/6 prime focus with a modified Canon 10D slr and an Baader IR block filter

Description

I believe I can see a tail forming. The gas and dust coma is definitely off center as well. Going out to take more!
 

Photographer

John Buonomo

E-mail

jbuonomo@astronight.com

Location

Billerica MA

Date

11-04-07 1:30am

Equipment

Celestron CGE William Optics 80mm CelstronLPR baader ir/uv Filters SAC10 1shot 3.3mp CCD 360sec subs x10
 

Photographer

Mesaed Alhammad

Location

Kuwait

Date

nov.3.2007 8:30 PM GMT

Equipment

Optics: Takahashi Sky90II Refractor Focal Length: 550mm @f/4.5 Mount: Celestron CGE Camera: SBIG ST-2000XM

Description

The comet is very bright
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