Tuesday 30th of October 2007 | Bob Christmas
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When I saw the clouds clearing out, around midnight, at the start of the morning of Tuesday, October 30, 2007, I decided to haul my rig out my front door and set it on my front landing, and I snapped a pile of images of Comet 17P Holmes.
This is a very unusual looking comet, but, with it being nearly at opposition, close to being on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun, we’re essentially looking down the barrel of its tail, if it indeed has one. As for a second nucleus, neither I nor my camera can see one.
Here’s probably the best of my shots; zoomed and cropped; I took this through my Tamron 300mm lens at f/2.8; Canon Digital Rebel 300D; ISO 200; 5 second exposure.
