For more than two weeks we are enjoying the beautiful view of magic fuzzball 17P Holmes from our backyard in the light polluted suburb of our village. Tonight I took a picture of the comet, my telescope and me, pointing with the laserpointer towards Holmes. I was just in time before clouds were covering our clear sky.

A mosaic of Comet Holmes from the nights of 12/11/07 and 14/11/07 showing : a) further increase in size and b) direction of travel towards Mirfak - ie left to right. At current speed the comet should pass very close to Mirfak in about 3 days time. Images taken with 80mm telephoto zoom and SX MX5C camera - 5 x 3 minutes exposures each.

Animation: Images from Nov. 2,4,5,6,8,9&10. 5x35 second images at about the same time each night through a blue filter. Images are stacked on the false center. 5" F4.2 530mm TV127is refractor and ST10 xmei ccd

Color photo: This is a RGBL image taken on Nov. 4th. The colors are varied with the faint blue ion gas being my favorite

I imaged Comet Holmes for six nights using an Olympus C-5000 camera afocal with a 9.25" Celestron SCT. I measured the size of the comet in each image and converted it to an actual size in miles using its current distance from Earth. A graph of diameter vs time shows a straight line with a slope of about 50,000 miles/day. The speed of the material would be half this, or about 1000 miles per hour. You can estimate the size of the dust cloud as diameter = (52,000 miles) * (days since Oct 23) This predicts the dust cloud to be bigger than the Sun by Nov 9.

The comet 17/P Holmes is an incredible object yet.I taken those images by Canon 30D and i used the Meade 8" LX200R telescope. Then I edited with Adobe photoshope CS3.this image show that the size of moon and comet Holmes are nearly equal.

Several nights, several locations, several telescopes but one beautiful comet. Canon 300D on SW80ED, C 9 1/4 and LX200

Shots on the 2007.11.14 - 23h 14m U.T. Pentax SDUF II 400/4 + ccd ST-10XME Filter:LRGB exposed: 6x4x60 seconds The comet is to few more than 1° from Alpha Perseus (Mirfak)

Seeing Tom Wagner's image got me to thinking of how colorful our backyard Oak trees are this fall, so I went outside and made this image. Canon Rebel XTi with a 50mm Nikkor lens @ f/5.6 when focused on the tree during the three seconds it took to open the shutter, fire the flash unit, and cover the lens. Then, the focus was shifted to infinity and the lens opened up to f/2.8, then the lens was uncovered for an additional 15 seconds before closing the shutter. ISO 800.

I was imaging 17P/Holmes when a Taurid meteor went through the field of view, grazing the edge of the comet. This .gif is only 3 frames long. So happy I was using the Gstar-ex video camera at the time.

The comet was photographed through broken cloud just before midnight on November 13. It was ten degrees above the northern horizon. Canon 40D with Williams Optics FLT 110 on Paramount ME, 6 minutes at ISO 800.