Comet 17P Holmes

Managed to grab Holmes last night, what a show. Digital Rebel XT.



Dave Gradwell

Well, it's not a photo, but here's a sketch I did last night:



-- Jeff

Great Jeff

Did you see that much fuzzyness around the comet. I tried to image it at f/33 with my 11 inch and Skynyx camera but all I could make out was a stellar type dot.

Dave

Dave --

Yeah, visually it was quite bright, and about 60" in diameter. Very yellow at lower powers, fading to slightly yellow at 375x.

Interestingly, most of the photos show a gradual decrease in brightness of the halo as one moves out from the center. Visually, it's much more abrupt, keeping most of it's brightness out to about 90%, and then falling off quite rapidly. Very much like the Owl Nebula without the eyes (and yellow, of course).

I'm clouded out tonight.

-- Jeff.

Hey great stuff lads, love the sketch Jeff the best detail i've seen so far.

Well, it's not a photo, but here's a sketch I did last night:
-- Jeff

Jeff,

Excellent sketch! Really captures how it appears in the eyepiece.