Saturday 3rd of November 2007 | Bob Christmas
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I took some more pictures of Comet 17P Holmes just after midnight on Saturday, November 3, 2007 from outside my front condo door.
This comet has certainly grown over the last several days, and, I’m wondering if that’s an ever-so-slight hint of a tail inside the inner coma at about 5:00 relative to the nucleus.
Here’s a cropped version of one of my 20 second exposures, colour-balanced, at ISO 200 through my Tamron 300mm lens @ f/2.8 + Canon Digital Rebel 300D:
Here’s an overexposed colour-balanced and gamma-corrected image; as above, but a 2 minute exposure:
