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Comet Holmes
There is a very bright comet that is easy to photograph.
The comet 17/P Holmes is in the constellation Perseus and underwent a 17-million fold increase in brightness in mid October. It can be viewed in most cities where it appears about half the diameter of the moon, and from a dark country sky the fainter outer portion is larger than the full moon. It is a nice view in binoculars, but the tail is very faint. Exposures up to 2 seconds at f/4 ISO 1600 are about the maximum to prevent overexposure. Example image: 36 1-second exposures added: http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries...s2.d-c800.html To view the comet, google comet Holmes position and you should get several charts to use for locating the comet. It appears in the northeastern sky in the evening. Roger |
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Comet Holmes
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:48:20 -0600, "Roger N. Clark (change username
to rnclark)" wrote: There is a very bright comet that is easy to photograph. The comet 17/P Holmes is in the constellation Perseus and underwent a 17-million fold increase in brightness in mid October. It can be viewed in most cities where it appears about half the diameter of the moon, and from a dark country sky the fainter outer portion is larger than the full moon. It is a nice view in binoculars, but the tail is very faint. Exposures up to 2 seconds at f/4 ISO 1600 are about the maximum to prevent overexposure. Example image: 36 1-second exposures added: http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries...s2.d-c800.html To view the comet, google comet Holmes position and you should get several charts to use for locating the comet. It appears in the northeastern sky in the evening. Roger Several pictures have been posted in alt.binaries.pictures.astro. |
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Comet Holmes
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:52:58 GMT, Charles wrote:
Several pictures have been posted in alt.binaries.pictures.astro. Thanks. I'd much rather go there than add one more click to that lousy spammer Roger Clark's site. There's just no getting away from that spammer unless everyone put it in their spam filters and never replied to or quoted it. |
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Comet Holmes
Joseph Meehan wrote:
Thanks I'll add my thanks to Roger as well. When it was last clear a few nights ago we went out and had a look. Quite an unusual comet, and it looked (to me) like a just-fuzzy star. There was no twinkling. Sadly it doesn't look like it will be clear tonight. Oh, well! See: http://www.spaceweather.com/ The map they give hasn't changed for a while: http://www.spaceweather.com/images20...p1 au4ndekpg1 Cheers, David |
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Comet Holmes
On Nov 2, 9:48 am, "Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)"
wrote: There is a very bright comet that is easy to photograph. The comet 17/P Holmes is in the constellation Perseus and underwent a 17-million fold increase in brightness in mid October. It can be viewed in most cities where it appears about half the diameter of the moon, and from a dark country sky the fainter outer portion is larger than the full moon. It is a nice view in binoculars, but the tail is very faint. Exposures up to 2 seconds at f/4 ISO 1600 are about the maximum to prevent overexposure. Example image: 36 1-second exposures added:http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries...-1/web/comet.h... To view the comet, google comet Holmes position and you should get several charts to use for locating the comet. It appears in the northeastern sky in the evening. Roger Just out of curiosity, it is going to turn and give us a tail or is it going to continue to barrel straight at us until it hits us with such force that it wipes out life on earth, as we know it? |
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Comet Holmes
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007, bentley Jr wrote:
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:52:58 GMT, Charles wrote: Several pictures have been posted in alt.binaries.pictures.astro. Thanks. I'd much rather go there than add one more click to that lousy spammer Roger Clark's site. There's just no getting away from that spammer unless everyone put it in their spam filters and never replied to or quoted it. It's also nice to see better images of the comet in the alt.binaries.pictures.astro group. It's nice to see what people can do with their camera gear when they know a little something about photography. |
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Comet Holmes
On Nov 2, 11:48 pm, "Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)"
wrote: There is a very bright comet that is easy to photograph. The comet 17/P Holmes is in the constellation Perseus and underwent a 17-million fold increase in brightness in mid October. It can be viewed in most cities where it appears about half the diameter of the moon, and from a dark country sky the fainter outer portion is larger than the full moon. It is a nice view in binoculars, but the tail is very faint. Exposures up to 2 seconds at f/4 ISO 1600 are about the maximum to prevent overexposure. Example image: 36 1-second exposures added:http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries...-1/web/comet.h... To view the comet, google comet Holmes position and you should get several charts to use for locating the comet. It appears in the northeastern sky in the evening. Roger Thanks for the heads up, Roger, but sadly some of us are in the southern hemisphere... )O: But I guess it's your turn after us getting the best of McNaught... |
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Comet Holmes
wrote in message oups.com... Thanks for the heads up, Roger, but sadly some of us are in the southern hemisphere... )O: But I guess it's your turn after us getting the best of McNaught... Nyeaahhh... Whadd'ya want? An easy life? At 1:15am tomorrow (Sunday) it'll be 5 degrees above the horizon. (Coincidentally, 5 degrees azimuth, too) That's covered by trees and stuff where I live (NW Syd), but you might be luckier. Where are you, Mark? -- Jeff R. |
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Comet Holmes
gerald-arden wrote:
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007, bentley Jr wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:52:58 GMT, Charles wrote: Several pictures have been posted in alt.binaries.pictures.astro. Thanks. I'd much rather go there than add one more click to that lousy spammer Roger Clark's site. There's just no getting away from that spammer unless everyone put it in their spam filters and never replied to or quoted it. It's also nice to see better images of the comet in the alt.binaries.pictures.astro group. It's nice to see what people can do with their camera gear when they know a little something about photography. HaHa. Everyone should be aware that this and Bently Jr. is the infamous P&S troll who has been haunting these newsgroups. It constantly changes its name. The headers and its style of insults give it away. It is best to ignore it. |
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Comet Holmes
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:28:43 -0600, "Roger N. Clark (change username to
rnclark)" wrote: gerald-arden wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2007, bentley Jr wrote: On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:52:58 GMT, Charles wrote: Several pictures have been posted in alt.binaries.pictures.astro. Thanks. I'd much rather go there than add one more click to that lousy spammer Roger Clark's site. There's just no getting away from that spammer unless everyone put it in their spam filters and never replied to or quoted it. It's also nice to see better images of the comet in the alt.binaries.pictures.astro group. It's nice to see what people can do with their camera gear when they know a little something about photography. HaHa. Everyone should be aware that this and Bently Jr. is the infamous P&S troll who has been haunting these newsgroups. It constantly changes its name. The headers and its style of insults give it away. It is best to ignore it. HaHa Everyone should know that you're WRONG again! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's nice to see that I'm not the ONLY one that realizes your photography is pure crap. Anyone visiting the astro photo newsgroup can see what a waste of money your camera was. Wasted on someone with no talent and no skill too. Every one of the photos posted there is FAR BETTER than yours! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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