After a week of clouds it was nice to meet the comet again. You can easy find it with a binocular even on a lightpolluted backyardsky. Canon 400 EOS with a standard 18-55mm lens.

A color image and a particular graphic processing (b&w) that show actual asymmetric shape of comet Holmes. Image taken through Miniborg 45 refractor and Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 CCD camera from L'Aquila, a suburban area near centre of Italy.

By using solar eclipse glasses held towards the brilliant full moon the relative sizes of 17P and our natural satellite can seen on this F=18mm, 15 second exposure (ISO 800). Moonlight couldn't overwhelm comet Holmes' 3rd magnitude glow. I was surprised to see the 3 million km dust sphere quite easily with naked eyes.

This is part of the holiday greeting that will be sent out to all members of the Lackawanna Astronomical Society. Images were taken on the dates shown on the graphic. We have been imaging the comet since Oct 25, 2007

Very nice comet. Made with 100/600 APO refractor and Canon 350D. 7x180 sec exp. at ISO 1600.

Going, going, but not quite gone... Compare how Comet Holmes has increased in size and decreased in brightness in these two identically scaled images. Holmes was as voluminous as the sun in the November 11 image, but eight times the volume in the November 27 photo. Canon D40 images.

Early morning today high clouds rolled in. Now I've got two obstacles to overcome - the Moon light and these clouds. Still the comet was bright enough to see and photograph not only the nucleus, but also the coma.

The Moon is in the wane, so the sky is a bit darker than a few days ago. With the help of a snowstorm, comet Holmes is easily visible again. Canon EOS 5D camera at ISO 800, 50 mm lens at f/2.8, 20 seconds of exposure. - Happy birthday SpaceWeather :)

Amazing, during only a 60sec exposure with a 100mm ojective I captured four satellites around comet Holmes in Perseus and two of them crossed each other. Captured with a Canon Digital Rebel XT.

This is a sequence of images all made with the same equipment, an Antares Sentinel 80mm f/6 refractor and an Orion StarShoot Deep Space Color Imager CCD. The images are reproduced to the same scale. The 2007 NOV 24 image required "stitching" of two adjacent fields to span the comet's apparent diameter! The OCT 28 image was a composite of 60 4-sec. exposures made in my front yard in Alexandria, VA. The OCT 30 image was made at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC, and is a composite of 60 5s exposures. The NOV 24 image is a composite of two stacks of 60 10s exposures, captured in Wayne, PA.

Before moonrise tonight, I snapped this image of Comet Holmes, a 122-sec guided exposure with a 300 mm Nikkor lens at f2.8. This was the first opportunity I have had to shoot the comet since the bright moon began interfering nearly two weeks ago. Still visible to the unaided eye in a clear, dark sky, the comet has swollen into a fuzzball considerably larger in angular size then the Moon. To emphasize this, I have inset an image of the waning gibbous moon taken tonight after moonrise with the same 300 mm lens. The bright star to the lower left of the comet is Mirfak (Alpha Persei) and the star cluster to the right of the comet is NGC 1245. Both images were taken with a Fuji Finepix S2 digital camera.

I'm sure you've seen enough photos of Comet Holmes but here's a series of photos taken between the two full moons to show the path that the comet has taken through Perseus. It would have been nice to get a photo every 2 or 3 days, but the weather doesn't always cooperate.