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PhotographerBabak TafreshiLocationTehran, IranDateMorning of Oct. 26, 2007EquipmentCanon EOS 20D, 28mm lens for th wide view and 5inch F1250 SCT for the close-up.DescriptionComet Holmes in morning sky, at Magnituide 2.5, nearly a million times brighter than few days ago! The comet close up shows the multi-arc minute coma and off0center nucleus surrounded by inner bright coma. |
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PhotographerKeith GearyLocationCo.Cavan IrelandDate25 Oct 2007 2145 UTEquipmentCelestron C80ED Apo refractor, Canon 400D, ISO 100, 5 secondsDescriptionComet 17P/ Holmes in outburst |
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PhotographerTimothy DeyLocationDetroit, MIDate0:00 UTC 25 Oct 2007EquipmentShot through a Meade LX200 (f/10) 10" scope with a Canon Digital Rebel XT and a SkyGlow Broadband filter. The photo is a single, cropped, unprocessed image of 30" duration at ISO 400.DescriptionEven next to the brightest full moon of the year and shot from downtown Detroit, Comet 17P Holmes is starting to reveal a "bullseye" structure in the components of the tail. |
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PhotographerBob JohnsonLocationSaskatoon, SaskatchewanDateOctober 25th.,8:00pmEquipmentMeade LX200r, DSI II ColorDescriptionOut in my backyard, even with the Full Moon glaring got an excellent shot of Comet Holmes, can even make out a little tail pointing away from the Sun, 400x. |
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PhotographerJim LougheedLocationOttawa, CanadaDateOct. 22, 2007, 5:13 AM DSTEquipmentPentax DL2 with 18 mm lens, f/3.5, 15 sec., ISO 800DescriptionLast week's 'Sky at a Glance' mentioned Venus, Saturn and Regulus together in the early morning. By coincidence I was attempting to observe the zodiacal light and captured them along with an Orionid meteor (upper right, traveling towards the left) and the light pyramid that appears about 1/2 hour before morning twilight. The enlargement around the meteor also reveals the M44 "Beehive" open cluster in Cancer. |
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PhotographerIlia TeimouriLocationTehran,IranDate25Oct 2007EquipmentCanon EOS 20D, EQ6 mount and Meade 8" TelescopeDescriptionI can say this comet is just extra amazing. This is very big, bright and beautiful. I found and captured image easily with much light pollution, in Tehran city. I captured these image with Canon EOS 20D, EQ6 mount and Meade 8" Telescope and edited with Photoshop CS2, also I took nebula-broadband filter for better resolution. You can see this comet with the naked-eye when the great moon in the sky. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationMy driveway near De Soto, Kansas.Date05:00 UT, 10-25-07EquipmentI used my homemade (hand ground and figured) 6" f/8 reflector at 187X and a field of 27 arcmin. A 13mm type 6 Nagler in a Televue Big BarlowDescriptionThis full, smaller image shows the field of the comet at 05:00 UT on Oct. 25th, 2007. |
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PhotographerJodie ReynoldsLocationFolsom, CA, USADate23:54 on Oct-24-2007EquipmentCanon A630 1 sec @ 200ASA, 7mm @ f/2.8 shot afocal with a NexStar 5i through a 25mm PlosslDescriptionComet Holmes(17P) recently had an outburst, rising many thousands of times in apparent magnitude (to mag. ~3.0), temporarily visible above the bright star Capella, even under full-moon light pollution in the suburbs. This is a closeup photograph of this rare event. |
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PhotographerWilliam McMullenLocationOttawa, Ontario, CanadaDateOctober 24, 2007 at 10:45pmEquipmentPhoto taken with a Canon Rebel XT with a Sigma 70-300 @ 133mm, F4.5 for 20 seconds at ISO 800. The camera was mounted on a Celestron CG5 mount.DescriptionComet 17P/Holmes is impressive! It resembles another star in the constellation Perseus. Despite the bright moonlight and suburban skyglow, the comet is an easy target for the unaided eye. |
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PhotographerTom MartinezLocationCleveland, MissouriDate10-24-2007, 9:45 pm CDTEquipmentCanon XTi on a tripod, 18mm f/3.5, 10 sec, ISO 1600DescriptionComet P17/Holmes at it's outburst shows up as a new star in Perseus. The photo shows what it visually looks like from a rural site. |
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