Comet 17P/Holmes on Halloween 2007
Here’s Comet 17P/Holmes as it appears on Halloween. This image is a 330s stacked image. The comet is continuing to enlarge. At this rate by some time late next week I won’t be able to capture the entire thing in one frame on my camera and I will have to patch together and image from multiple frames.
Please try to take a look at this since it’s still visible to the naked eye at night and should be for a while. It’s starting to be obviously fuzzy even without binoculars.
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Ed, I can pick it up easily w/o my binocs. I am looking forward to seeing how it looks a week from now!
Comment by pollyann — November 1, 2007 @ 9:31 pm