Comet Holmes is huge!

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

3rd December and its got enormous.

(click to enlarge)

This is a full frame D50 DSLR shot through the ED80, if it grows any more I'll have to mosaic the thing. I could have cropped the amp glow out, but then it wouldn't be a full frame and not so "big". This is a stack of 3 minute shots at ISO1600, I can't see a tail with this setup so I'm going to have to get a wider FOV to see whats there.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[Jamie]

Jeeze just how big is this comet gonna get???????????? :shock:

[Andrew*]

I know :shock:

I saw it tonight, I could make out the long shape of it quite clearly, but I wasn't prepared for its enormous size. It's very faint now as well.

Lovely pic of it though

Andrew

[Beyond_Vision]

Sure is hugh KK also getting dimmer. When I was taking a widefield shot of it last night it was as big as the square of stars in the Pleiades Cluster. Its also much more elongated

Regards

Kevin

[Jaffa007]

That's a fantastic image

Was only thinking about the comet last night and then the skies cleared and there it was, still visiable! had a quick look with the Bino's

Thanks

James

[CELESCOPE]

Lovely shot that one KK , send that one up , lovely image mate

Rog

[markcol]

Nice one KK, if it keeps on growing we'll be doing it widefield soon!

(Weather permitting of course)

Cheers

Mark

[Albireo380]

Great image KK. i saw the comet on Sunday night - it seemed to have doubled in diameter over the last few weeks. Still a naked eye object from a dark sky site though

Tom

[Vega]

I can hear all the cries of... "2nd outburst.... pwetty pleeeeeeeeeeeeease"

Matt

[Andrew*]

now that would be cool 8) 2 outer comas and 2 inner.

[winfij]

That's an excellent shot - I had no idea it had grown so large.

Grab a few dark frames to get rid of that amp glow and it will be a cracking image.

John

[jcm]

Excellent shot , KK

Would have a look myself but for

John

[barkis]

That's a Bingo shot KK, so many stars in the field too. I didn'teven notice the Amp Glow, I was so taken with the immensity of this beast. It seems to have a life of it's own this fellow. It's a pity we can't get it's namesake Sherlock to investigate the strange behaviour.

Ron.

[The Warthog]

I think that's a cracking image, and I don't know what amp glow is!

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

I think that's a cracking image, and I don't know what amp glow is!

Amp glow is where somebody spilt red wine on the top edge WH.

Kaptain Klevtsov