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COMETS
28.01.08
Comet 17P/Holmes, Doonbeg, Co Clare.
11.01.08
Just to keep a record of the final days of Comet 17P/Holmes, here is a shot
of the Perseus region showing Holmes as a very diffuse cloud like area next to
the star Algol.
02.12.07
Comet 17P/Holmes continues to expand but begins to fade.
It's just still about naked eye. Pretty amazing to think its now much bigger in
diameter than the Sun.
Canon 350D, 18-55
mm Lens, 20sec, ISO 1800.
02.11.07
Comet 17P/Holmes - Continues to expand. It is now approx the same size of our
Sun.
24.10.07
Comet 17P/Holmes - Eruption!
Astronomers in Japan, Persia and Europe reported last night that Comet
17P/Holmes is underwent a spectacular eruption.
The 17th magnitude comet brightened by a factor of five hundred thousand
or more during the past 24 hours
becoming a naked-eye object in the evening sky.
Look for a yellow 2.5th magnitude fuzzball in the constellation Perseus after
sunset.
This comet is one of the strangest
I've ever seen.
It's outburst was totally unexpected and since it's happened it is getting
bigger and brighter.
At last observation I estimated it to be Mag. 2.5.
Time will only tell if it becomes a daylight object or if it tails.
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