October 26th, 2007 (morning) 17P/Holmes

Imaged the comet, hopefully this weekend will be nice and it will be more developed. I had difficulties with this one, it’s soo bright that without some illustrative type wizzardry I can’t get background stars to show up without blowing out the comet so this image has all the levels streched, while I picked up all the background stars they will be too dim to see. Imaged with a Takahashi TOA-150 ST-10XME, 3x exposures 10 seconds each RGB binned 2×2, the Luminosity I am having blooming issues with so it’s an RGB versus and LRGB. It’s going to be really interesting to see how this develops, should be quite the target once it dims and develops a bit more. Given that the tail (if one indeed develops) will be pointed away from the sun with as slight angle parallel to it’s orbit, the Earth is currently between the sun and the comet so the tail will point directly away and slightly off center.

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