[AZ-Observing] Observing Comet Holmes last night

HI all,

We had about two hours of clear sky last night before
terrestrial water based nebula moved in.  My goal was
to see if comet Holmes was still a naked eye object,
and how big it looked in the binoculars now.  WEll, it
IS still visible, with averted vision as a haze of
light about a degree in diameter.  In the binoculars,
the veiw improved quite a bit, about 2 degrees of glow
were seen, but the jellyfish shape was no longer
apparent.  What seems to be left visually is the
central ridge,surrounded by a faint glow.

I then was able to take a few frames of the comet with
the Stellarvue and my DSLR, and here is what I got:

http://tinyurl.com/2f674h

Anyone else have a chance to look for it?

Chris


      
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