Holmes 17/P 300D ED80

[Ant]

What a great comet!

Never seen anything quite like it myself. Being nice and high in the sky makes life a little easier - can you imagine what it would have been like at new moon :shock:

This image is a stack of 28 x 12 seconds prime focus 300D and ED80 - no filters. I thought that I would take a single image of the moon for a size reference....

This image has been resized - with a full size crop underneath.

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Ant

[trevboyd]

Nice image, Ant, and a great idea to put it beside a shot of the moon for size. Just seen it myself - very interesting! Took a photo, but its no better than the hundreds of others already on here!

Trev

[barkis]

Very nice Ant. I like the moon comparison, It is a strange object this one, can't understand why the tail hasn't shown. There seems to plenty of stuff coming off it, but it is so uniform. Odd.

Ron.

[CELESCOPE]

well done on that Ant nicely presented as well , glad you made it ok , so hot last night was,nt it heehehheh

Rog

[Ant]

Cheers guys, it is great to see. I wonder why more hasn't been made of this in the press? Ok it's not a classic comet - i.e. virtually no tail, but hey a comet brightening up this much must be of interest to some people.

Roger phoned me last night - I was in the garden just looking around (and it was cold) Roger was in his warm room... last time I went into his warm room it was around 80f... too hot!!!

I'll be out again tonight (if it's clear) and might try using the barlow straight onto the 2" adapter...(about a 1.6 increase)

Ant

[Grant]

Nice capture mate! Great idea to use the moon for scale

[russ]

Great images Ant. What a fantastic comet it is. Just so different.

Russ

[Ant]

Cheers Guys,

I was a little worried to start with, the comet seems to have a soft edge (to the right side), I thought that maybe that was due to the stack being performed on the stars and not the comet.

But most of the other images were the same so I guess it's all OK.

I'm going to try again tonight for a load of images and see if I can improve the image.

Ant

[themos]

I can confirm that both I and my 9-year-old son saw a softening on one side, last night 8pmish.

[legion48]

Great capture Ant.

Cheers guys, it is great to see. I wonder why more hasn't been made of this in the press? Ok it's not a classic comet - i.e. virtually no tail, but hey a comet brightening up this much must be of interest to some people.

Ant

I agree. I haven't heard a word about this on TV/radio or in the papers.

[lunator]

Great capture Ant.

Cheers guys, it is great to see. I wonder why more hasn't been made of this in the press? Ok it's not a classic comet - i.e. virtually no tail, but hey a comet brightening up this much must be of interest to some people.

Ant

I agree. I haven't heard a word about this on TV/radio or in the papers.

I;m amazed that we haven't hear more about this comet. All my work colleagues are trying to view it tonight after I used Cartes du Ciel to show them where to look