Now I have an animated GIF-File of Holmes with our moon to compare it in size.

This tail is pretty faint, but it shows clearly here. I started imaging this comet a few days ago with my c11 at f/10. Then f/4.5. Now I'm using Hyperstar at f/1.8 and the field still isn't big enough. This is from 75 1-minute shots with c11 at f/1.8 using SXVF-H9c camera. Processed in ImagesPlus, with some adaptive LR to enhance - but the tail is directly visible in the stack. UT 20071031 04:00

Hi Tony Here are a few recent images of Holmes with a firework which suddenly appeared in the same shot which I thought has a nice Halloween theme. Also a few others of the comet taken from the countryside. Fujifilm S5600 5.1MP at ISP800 15 sec/

This is an animation of Comet Holmes over two nights. It shows the expansion of the gas/dust shell. Both images were taken with a SV80S apo refractor and SBIG ST-8E CCD camera.

I tried for the comets tail and was successful. What a wonderful and strange comet. Spectacular. Outer shell (the faintest level) is easily visible in my 14x100 binoculars.

Canon EOS 400D,800 ISO,5S Exposure

Watching the coma expand night after night has been fascinating. Sequence of four frames taken each night with a Canon 20Da and 90mm APO. Each frame a stack of 25 10sec exposures processed identically.

I took his picture last night near Caen, France. I use a FSQ 106 with 350 Baader. Exposure was 11 x 30 seconds at 800 ISO. It is a very nice comet !

Comet 17P/Holmes was as bright as nearby stars. It was a very easy target even with all the city lights. Comet was photographed from the observation deck of the Dekalb-Peachtree Airport KPDK in Atlanta. Nikon D200, 18-200mm VR AFS

I am a staff member of the Kopernik Observatory, Vestal, NY. This is a composite of two exposures of Comet Holmes. The 15 second exposure details the inner coma, and the 2 minute exposure details the fainter haze outside the familiar inner coma "disk". Both images used a 300mm camera lens at f/5.6 on a Canon Rebel XT camera body at ISO 1600. The camera was mounted "piggy-back" on a 3.5" Questar telescope that was used to track the object. Sky conditions were a bit hazy with noticeable light pollution.

While photographing Comet Holmes a jet aircraft flew right through it! What a lucky flightpath. The sky was clear and the constellation Perseus and Comet Holmes were all very bright. As an added bonus a brilliant Moon was high in the sky and to the east Venus shone brightly at daybreak. Photo details: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT camera, 400 ASA, 75-300mm lense (Comet Holmes and Moon), 18-55mm lense (Venus), 15s exposure, f=5.6 (for comet photos), for Moon 1/125s exposure at f=5.6, for Venus 1/4s exposure at f=3.5, all photos with tripod and remote shutter release and manual focus.

Although not spectacular like McNaught, Holmes has its own unique charms! I stayed most of the night at the campus observatory to get these pics and have to be back at work shortly. But it was well worth it! Details: Canon 20DA ISO 800, 152mm f/9 refractor, 2x30s shots about 75 minutes apart (12:27, 01:43 EDT)

I have been following this comet since the evening of the 24th. I've taken images every evening since then and combined them into a montage showing the position and size.