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Photographer

Vince Matteo

Location

Albany N.Y.

Date

10/27/07 9 p.m. EST

Equipment

imaged with Meade LX90@f/6.3 and Canon XTi with IDAS LPR filter. Guided by Orion ED80 and Meade DSI.

Description

Animation of about 1 hour (20X3min) with darks and flats applied. Comet shows very little movement in this hour of 3 minute images.
 

Photographer

Tom Hale

Location

Shelby Twp., Mich.

Date

Oct. 27, 10:30 pm

Equipment

Questar Quartz mirror telescope.

Description

Comet Holmes
 

Photographer

Bruce Gary

Location

Hereford, AZ

Date

2007.10.28, 02:15 & 02:34

Equipment

Meade LX200GPS 14-inch SBIG CCD with I-band filter

Description

Coma & nucleus moving
 

Photographer

Larry Pizzi

E-mail

pizzi109@comcast.net

Location

Delran, NJ (Outside of Philadelphia)

Date

10/27/07 20:59 EDT

Equipment

Canon 1D Mark III, Canon 100-400L @ 400mm

Description

Comet Holmes
 

Photographer

David Abbou

E-mail

david.abbou@verizon.net

Location

Stafford, VA

Date

10-27-07 at 9pm ET

Equipment

Canon D30 digital camera and 300mm lens on a tripod.

Description

The clouds and rain over the past few days made the comet invisible to us in the DC area, but it was easily visible to the unaided eye this evening even with the bright moon's glare in the sky.
 

Photographer

Antonello Medugno

Location

Capua (ITALY)

Date

2007.10.26/27

Equipment

Borg101ED f/6,4 and Intes Micro M603 f/10

Description

Multiband imaging of the comet 17P/Holmes
 

Photographer

Efrain Morales

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

10/24/07

Equipment

Meade LX200gps 10in., Celestron CGE Mount, SBIG ST402ME, Meade f6.3 F/R

Description

From a simple to a dramatic Mag 17 to a Mag 3 comet taking shape. The cause is still under investigation.
 

Photographer

Eduardo Alamilla Esquivel

E-mail

hola_my_friend@hotmail.com

Location

Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

Date

Time: 02 hr 53 min UT. October 27, 2007.

Equipment

Telescope: Meade Schmidt Cassegrain LX200GPS 14" f/10. Camera: Meade DSI Pro II Monochrome.

Description

Very impressive celestial object visually or with telescope. Cover all CCD chip of my camera!
 

Photographer

Ramiro Hernandez Banda

E-mail

ramirohb@itesm.mx

Location

Saltillo, Mx

Date

october 27th, 3:17 CT

Equipment

8" SCTCelestron + Focal reducer F/6.3 B&W DMK 21AF04 camera

Description

no fragmentes visible at the eyepiece, while processing with Registax they came out, the moon light was no problem to imaging.
 

Photographer

Bob Johnson

E-mail

bjohnson555@hotmail.com

Location

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Date

Oct 27/07 7:30pm

Equipment

Meade LX200r Meade DSI II color

Description

Went outside to my backyard to take a picture of Comet Holmes, didn't notice any friends with the Comet until after 80 exposures at .5 secs each.
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