I got some images of the comet last night. First I tried a webcam but had much trouble focusing. Contrast was very poor with the milky bright sky from the moon. Next I tried my DSLR. Better results but nothing to brag about. Last, I tried my DSI that I use for guiding. It gave the best results. Again nothing to brag about but it did show some interesting features of the comet from the 11 to the 3 o'clock position in the image that I could not see visually through my TEC 140. Has anyone noticed these chunks during their observations? George http://www.pbase.com/geokolb/image/87898223/original http://www.pbase.com/geokolb/image/87898298/original =20 -----Original Message----- From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of AJ Crayon Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 11:27 AM To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Comet 17/PHolmes - Swan Band filter Chris, I hope you can get something to show up. I won't have time tonight, but may give it another try tomorrow night. Maybe my backyard or a little north of aurora Phoenicis. Clear skies and good imaging, aj ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Chris Schur" <comets133@xxxxxxxxx> To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 11:04 AM Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Comet 17/PHolmes - Swan Band filter Aj, I have a 48mm swan band filter, Ill try to get images of the comet with the CCD and well see whats out there! Chris --- AJ Crayon <acrayon@xxxxxxx> wrote: > In response to Frank Uralic's request for anyone > using this kind of filter I can respond to a yes I > have and did so last night, Thursday. Steve Coe, a > full moon, some bright yard lights and I were out > north of Scottsdale, AZ with my 8" SCT at about > 145X. Without the filter this is a magnificent, yet > mysterious, comet. Don't know what I can supply for > an observation that hasn't been said before. Yes it > does have obvious planetary nebula like features. > It is round, large, bright with an extremely > brighter coma and a stellar nucleus that is offset > from the coma. I didn't attempt to measure its > position. With the Swan Band there is a much > fainter fan shaped halo of about 1/2 again larger > than the entire comet. A surprise to me as this > hasn't shown up in Jeremy Perez's excellent drawings > nor any of the astroimages. The comet was at about > the focus of the halo, which is about where one > would be expected. Unfortunately I didn't try to > measure the position angle so can't sa > y much about that. > The Swan Band filter is supposed to make comets that > consist mostly of gas brighter and those mostly of > dust fainter. So my suspicion is there is a little > more gas than dust. Yet, other than the halo, never > did we see any hint of a tail. > > Hope this helps. > > Clear skies, > AJ Crayon > > -- > See message header for info on list archives or > unsubscribing, and please > send personal replies to the author, not the list. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please=20 send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.