Comet Holmes, night of Nov 10/11, about 2 am MST Nov 11. In stack of 6 x 2 minute exposures at f/2.8 with 200mm telephoto lens and Canon 20Da camera. Contrast boosted to bring out faint tail. Perseus Association near centre.
Comet Holmes, taken Nov 3, 2007 with 135mm telephoto lens and Canon 20Da, at ISO800, stack of 4 x 2.5minute exposures at f/2.8. Contrast boosted to bring out faint tail. Perseus Association near centre.
Comet Holmes, 17P, taken Nov 1, 2007 on excellent night. Taken with A&M 105mm apo refractor at f/5 with Borg 0.85x compressor/field flattener on SkyWatcher HEQ5 mount. Canon 20Da camera at ISO400. Composite of 4 min, 2min, 1min, 30sec, 15sec, and 7 sec exposures, each exposure being a stack of 3 to 4 identical exposures. Registered and stacked in Photoshop (HDR mode did not produce usable result, so manually composited with sucessively smaller masks to reveal short exposure content around nucleus. Contrast exaggerated with Curves to bring out very faint tail structure. North up, so tail to the S and SW.Nucleus is dot at upper left of inner coma, other star in inner coma at right is a field star
