Comet Holmes in a winter freezing mid-night of snow-covered Alborz mountains of Iran.

This evening it was possible to saw Comet Holmes between many clouds. With the naked eye the comet looks as a large, diffuse nebulae. I create a picture of the comet and of the galaxie in the constellation Anromeda (M31) to create a compare in the size and brightness. I create both pictures with a Canon EOS 20D, 800 ASA, 120 secondes exposure with a telephoto lens 135mm/3,5. Kind regards Günther

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Comet Holmes mit Airplane, Canon EOS 350D, 18:10 MEZ, 15 s exposure, 1 600 ISO, 750mm Focal length

It is hard for me to picture just how big this comet has gotten. It took 6 frames with my 5" refractor and ccd camera to cover this area. I still had no sence of size so I have added a picture of the Moon or at least half a Moon at scaled size showing true size. Also shown is the cluster NGC 1245. This image from 2007/12/06

Holmes is bright enough still for naked eye observing and it seems like an egg on the sky. Canon 5D, 50mm Lens, ISO 1600, F/2.4, 14 sec

Comet 17P/Holmes continue his show in Perseus constellation, coma estimed 75' and magnitude steady at 2.7 to naked eye since the last nights. Fantastic the view in the sky with the comet, Andromeda, Double Perseus Open Cluster, Mars and Pleiades more to East. The sky was very clear and the seeing was optimal.

The comet Holmes is more biggest of the moon and i took this image at foret momorency Québec Canada Whit 40 D canon camera at 3200 ISO and 100mm 400mm lent at f 5.6.

A beautiful night-view of pyramids in Giza seen here with comet Holmes and Pleiades on the African sky. Night for a memory.

The comet was still visible to the naked eye in light polluted suburban Los Angeles. Nikon D200. ISO 800. AstroPhysics 130mm refractor at f/4.5. Lumicon deep sky light pollution filter. Composite of three two minute exposures.

Holmes is getting very hard to photograph and even harder to see, if not at all, from city lights. I tried to find it and am not sure if I could see it in my 8x42 binoculars. It was very hard to see in a single image but I was able to bring it out a little after stacking a few images. Just out of curiosity I thought I would try to measure it's width and came up with over 50 arc minutes. It still looks very large in the surrounding star field.

Comet Holmes is close to the Double Clusters of the Perseus. (1)Nikon 85mm(F1.4)+Nikon D70s (ISO1600) 90s-Exp. (2)Nikon ED400mm(F3.5)+ Nikon D70s (ISO1600) 120s-Exp.