| Comet
17P/Holmes November 2007 |
| Comet Holmes was discovered by Edwin Holmes
in 1892 when it reached 5th magnitude near the Andromeda galaxy.
Normally it is quite faint and it was lost for nearly 60 years. In
October 2007 it brightened from magnitude 17 to magnitude 2.8 in only 42
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Above: A composite of 2 images taken on
29/10/07 and 02/11/07 with a 135mm telephoto lens which clearly shows
the growth of the comet. These images where 30 second exposures.
Left: A stack of several 1 minutes exposures with the LX200 and HX516
on 02/11/06 around 23:00UTC
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| Comet Linear C/2000WM1 21:08 to
21:44UTC 14/11/01 |
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| Details
20x1 minute exposures at f3.3 with the LX200. Frame size is about
12x8'. The animation uses every other frame and is half size.
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| The animation and still of Comet Linear show 2 ways of
processing the same images. In the animation the frames are aligned
using the stars whereas for the still the comet nucleus was used for
alignment. At the time the comet was about magnitude 6.9 in Perseus. |
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Comet Ikeya-Zhang 19:45GMT on 27/03/02
Ikeya-Zhang was magnitude 3.5 in Andromeda when I took this image.
The image is a composite of about 4x10sec exposures at f3.3 on the
LX200. The comet was low in the west at the time and my attempts to
image the entire tail were thwarted as it slipped behind a neighbour's
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| Comet Swan
Autumn 2006 |
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Image taken on 09/10/06 at about 19:00. The
comet was pretty low in the North West at the time and there were a few wisps
of cloud about.
This is stack of 5x1minute exposures with the HX516 and a 135mm
telephoto lens at f2.8. The comet is between the stars HIP64212 and
HIP64530 with the galaxy NGC5005 just below it.
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An image from 26/10/06 at 20:00. The star
just ahead of the comet is HD146489
The FOV is about 2 degrees wide
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| Comet McNaught
2006P1 January 2007 |
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A bright naked eye comet seen here on
10/01/07. This image is a stack of 5 made with a Nikon Coolpix camera.
The comet was a beautiful sight through binoculars
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