Comet Holmes and Mirfak

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Tonight, it was clear, for a while anyway — long enough to have another opportunity to photograph Comet 17P Holmes outside my front door in Burlington, so, here’s one of my better shots I took tonight. Tamron 300mm lens @ f/2.8; Canon Digital Rebel 300D; ISO 400; 53 second exposure. Cropped. A quickly-processed “rough cut”.

The comet appears beside Mirfak (Alpha Persei, that bright blob of a star on the right).

Cheers,

Bob Christmas