Comet 17P / Holmes near Perseus by Bryan Murahashi

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27-OCT-2007

Comet 17P / Holmes near Perseus

This dim comet exploded in brightness on Oct. 24 and is now easily visible with the naked eye.

With binoculars the comet appears as a big fuzzy spot next to the tiny sharp stars.

A possible explanation is that this comet has a honeycomb structure which has collapsed and exposed
new cometary ice to the sunlight for the first time.

There is a nice skymap at spaceweather.com

Nikon D200 ,Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6g IF-ED AF-S DX VR
30s f/5.0 at 18.0mm iso400 on tripod.

Inset picture with D70, Sigma 300mm on tripod. 3 sec, F/5.6, iso=800 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

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laine82		03-Nov-2007 16:10
Fantastic !!!

coaster		02-Nov-2007 03:50
Great shot.

Jackdad		30-Oct-2007 17:32
cool, thanks for the info! if we get a clear night will have to get out there and stargaze.

Simon Chandler		30-Oct-2007 03:43
Great shot. Very education and well done. Thanks for sharing. v

Guest		30-Oct-2007 01:55
How interesting! V

Char		30-Oct-2007 00:38
Hi Bryan, This is amazing and really interesting. Thanks for the details. \/

Guest		29-Oct-2007 22:50
wow that's very cool! :-)

Carol Rollins		29-Oct-2007 18:41
Very impressive Bryan. Thank you. V.

Guest		29-Oct-2007 16:19
Excellent, Bryan.

Tom Munson		29-Oct-2007 15:25
Great shot Bryan. It must being going away there is no tail. V

Randy Adams		29-Oct-2007 13:52
Great capture Bryan!...unfortunately, too much pollution to see it here.