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Photographer

Ernesto Aguilar

Location

Luke AFB Arizona

Date

October 27, 2007 20:32

Equipment

C11 SGT Nikon 40D

Description

Comet is still easy to see even with the full moon lighting up the night.
 

Photographer

Roger Allen

Location

Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA

Date

10/27/2007 22:11 PDT

Equipment

Celestron C-5 with Canon Digital Rebel XT prime focus. ISO 1600, 3.2s exposure.

Description

Comet Holmes with a few stars nearby for context. First astrophoto I've taken in quite a while... Nice to have a clear night in Oregon!
 

Photographer

myron wasiuta

E-mail

myrnteryx4@aol.com

Location

spotsylvania, virginia

Date

October 27, 2007 10:30EDT

Equipment

CGE 1400 f/7 ST-402 ME ccd camera

Description

This image shows the coma of comet Holmes. Note subtle detail in the nuclear area-streamers and a jet.
 

Photographer

myron wasiuta

E-mail

myrnteryx4@aol.com

Location

spotsylvania, virginia

Date

October 27, 2007 10:30 EDT

Equipment

CGE 1400 f/7 ST-402 ccd camera

Description

This is a highly processed view of a fully calibrated image showing the central coma structure of Comet Holmes. This comet appeared golden yellow to my eye!
 

Photographer

Carl Christensen

E-mail

carlc93906@aol.com

Location

Salinas, CA

Date

October 27 10:00 PM PDT

Equipment

C8 DSI 90 - 0.5 sec exposures

Description

Comet Holmes
 

Photographer

John Dolby

Location

Tucson, AZ

Date

06:00UT, 28-Oct-07

Equipment

8-inch SCT @ f/6.3. Canon Digital Rebel XT. 30-second exposure.

Description

Comet Holmes.
 

Photographer

Lorenzo Comolli

E-mail

comolli@libero.it

Location

Tradate, VA, Italy

Date

27 October 2007, h RGB 19.32 - 19.47 - 20.02 UT

Equipment

30 cm f/2.0 Schmidt Camera + CCD. Total exposure 22 min.

Description

Dust and gas: 17PHolmes is now showing both CO gas (green external disk) and dust (yellow internal disk).
 

Photographer

Jamie Castle

E-mail

jamiecastle@comcast.net

Location

Olney, Maryland 39.16N 77.09W

Date

10/28/2007 025618 UTC

Equipment

6" Intes Maksutov @ f/10 Celestron GP mount Meade DSI Pro II monochrome imager Atik .5x focal reducer

Description

Comet Holmes Jpeg conversion from acquired FITS image.
 

Photographer

John Johnson

Location

Sioux Falls S.D.

Date

10/25/07 9:30 pm

Equipment

120mm Orion F 8.3 Refractor Afocal through a 17mm Eyepiece and a Fugi Fine pix a550 camera.

Description

Comet 17P Holes as it brightened from 10/2407 to 10/25/07
 

Photographer

Norm Fredrick

Location

Claremont NH, my back yard

Date

Oct 25 2007 8:30 pm

Equipment

Meade DSI Pro Meade LXD55 SN10

Description

I thought I'd take a look at the comet and then I decided I might as well get everything set up to get some pictures. I had to hurry along as some cloud cover was closing in and the moon was coming up over the trees in my yard
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