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Old 31-10-2007, 10:45 AM
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Great images Paul and Jeanette.

I like the widefield view taken with the 135mm Paul.

Glad you got some good weather at last.
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Old 31-10-2007, 12:07 PM
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Here we go.
Same image as before, but I pumped up the levels and curves to bring out the onion skin thing.
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Old 31-10-2007, 01:46 PM
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Nice work Jeanette!

I might try and view this one tonight if the weather holds.
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Old 31-10-2007, 03:35 PM
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Great pics all, well done. Am yet to see it due to cloud and probable low latitude in Bendigo, but found this nice animation.

http://www.myslooh.com/data/members/8919/1193695637.gif
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Old 31-10-2007, 04:11 PM
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yep very nice Paul and Jeanette glad you finally got a squiz at this one, and love the sub-tropical viewers feel to yours paul, the palm fronds really set it off great souvinir!
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Old 31-10-2007, 05:01 PM
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Wait til you see the next one Kearn. Shot between the power lines and the exhaust duct of the bowls club next door Ya take what you can get.
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Old 31-10-2007, 05:22 PM
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look forward to it Paul! it'll be like one of my recent shots mate! lol gritty realism?
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Old 02-11-2007, 03:27 AM
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A dance with Melotte 20 and close swing at Mirfak is on tap for November as Holmes' path turns southwest:

http://shopplaza.nl/astro/comets/17PCH01.png


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Old 02-11-2007, 07:47 AM
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It's on YouTube too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUf19AbJH8
Watch it get bigger over 3 days!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exs0ZQahreA
See it cross the sky!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_5ve1GpMck

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Old 02-11-2007, 08:00 AM
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Interesting link
http://www.cloudbait.com/gallery/comet/holmes.html

Gotta love the name of the observatory.
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Old 02-11-2007, 09:07 AM
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Cool

Hopefully clear skies tonight and tomorrow night!!

* rubs hands together feverishly *

I'll finally get to see the comet!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 02-11-2007, 10:06 AM
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I'm with you on this one, I'd love to see it or try and get a picture of it my self
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in answer to enquiries of the tail situ - this morning i saw a mind blowing stretched deeeeeep image posted by the legendary Michael Jaeger on ml, edit:found a link

http://cometography.com/pcomets/017p.html

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Old 02-11-2007, 07:26 PM
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Cool

Wow!! That's amazing!!!

Well, as predicted, there are scattered clouds (hazey) tonight, which is great because I can actually make out stars!!!

Now, guess which patch of sky the clouds are currently covering? Any takers?

Well, IF YOU GUESSED THE WHOLE NORTH, NORTH EAST PATCH OF SKY, YOU'VE JUST WON THE MILLION DOLLAR PRIZE!!!!

Fineprint: There is no million dollar prize!!
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Old 03-11-2007, 12:08 AM
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17P/Holmes at 1800mm focal length

I was imaging this comet 31.10.2007 by Vixen VC200L VISAC Cassegrain (200/1800mm) and 6Mpix QHY8 color CCD Camera. Scope was mounted on EQ6 and off-axis guided on star by my TVGuider. Motion of comet is slow and guiding on star is not broblem. I tried to create composition that visualizes all components of this spectacular comet. On the image you can see outer C2 band emission coma (greenish) and inner dust coma, with enhanced structure of jets. I took 15x3min images for inner coma and 4x10min images for better appearance of outer faint coma and convert them together throuh HDR merge method. Inner coma structures were enhanced using Larson-Sekanina rotational gradient and inserted back to original image. (note: Zdenek Sekanina is native of Czech - http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Sekanina/ ). Images were taken about 12 km south of 100 thousand city Hradec Kralove at east of Czech Republic.

I'm not able to take next images, because there is cloudy now, and forecast looks badly for next day. If I'll have clears sky at comming days, will try to catch faint ion tail too, which this comet have, using fast newtonian astrograph.

Below you can see both native and enhanced look to comet.

http://foto.astronomy.cz/images/17PH...31_10_2007.jpg

http://foto.astronomy.cz/images/17PH...0_2007_enh.jpg

Full resolution images here:
http://foto.astronomy.cz/AstroForum/17PHolmes_norma.jpg
http://foto.astronomy.cz/AstroForum/...s_enhanced.jpg

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Old 03-11-2007, 07:13 AM
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Fantastic images Martin, you guys are lucky to be in the box seat this time around.
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Old 03-11-2007, 07:15 AM
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Some great images from the north guys! good to see the comet is still performing well..
A lot of us in eastern Australia will be clouded out for some days to come
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Old 03-11-2007, 09:27 AM
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How is this not coming at us?
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Old 03-11-2007, 11:07 AM
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Well I got to see it last night and it is sure something to see

Picked the wife up from work and noticed when arriveing home that most of the sky to the north had cleared.. I hadn't a clue were to look as the rain and cloud this week has been pretty full on .A quick look on the net and its pretty easy to find..Starting in taurus with aldebaran three bright stars
line up as you drop down towards the northern horizen into
perseus, the california nebula nearby is the only object I recall looking at down this way before.. a smallish triangle can be made of the three stars down there , the comet being the one to the east if i remember right.. looking into my finder with a 13 mm nagler this object is already pretty impressive .. drop in a 28 mm for 46x in my 10" and it almost fills the view ,very impressive sight . I hope you guys down south get a shot at this one
even as it transits here its still fairly low in the north .. My northern horizen is fairly clean
and it didn't really become easily visible until aroun 1.30 - 2.00.
theres a lookout not far from home i might have to visit tonight that overlooks the ocean.

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Old 03-11-2007, 12:06 PM
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Finally got some time at the ep, been living in a hole called an office lately. I have managed to come on here to read about whats going on a couple of times, but as i said absolutley no time to have through the scope.

Obviously because of the excitment about 17P/homes, this was a priority, and it didn't disapoint. Took my first look at about 930 pm when it first showed its face above the horizon. Was very dirty looking and couldn't even get crisp focus. Checked the laptop and the best time would be around midnight. Had a look at a few other things and came back periodically, the view was getting clearer the later it got, (dew to a combination of its angular height and the fact that the seeing was getting better as the days heat dispersed). As stated the best view was around midnight when it reached about 21 deg above the horizon. This object is amazing, a lot larger than i thought it woulod be. Even the naked eye view, it looked like omega centuri and 47 tuc do naked eye. It is pale yellow in colour and dramatically brightens towards an offset center. Looks like a cotton ball soked in dettol.

Incidentally the sky put on another show last night. At 12.05am EST a huge meteor / fire ball thingy streaked accross the entire northern sky. Scared the heck out of me. Started as a normal shooting star and erupted into a glowing flame with a huge bright green, blue and purple tail. After the initial flare it died off and went back to a normal shooting star again and then erupted a second time and slowly got smaller until it burnt out. The whole deal lasted for what seemed like 10 seconds, although judging by how fast it was moving i'm sure it was much less than that probably around 3 to 5 seconds. I was gob smacked, was the most beautiful meteor I have ever seen. Did anyone else see it? I'm sure someone did, because many people would have been looking at 17p/holmes around that time.
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