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Comet 17P/Holmes

On Wednesday, October 24, 2007 an obscure periodic comet Holmes experienced a sudden flare-up, bringing it from 17th magnitude to a 2.5 in just a few hours. The comet remains visible to the naked eye in Perseus.
Comet 17P/Holmes, 10/25 at at 21:45
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Comet 17P/Holmes, Taken 10-25
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Comet 17P/Holmes, taken Thursday 10/25, 2 seconds though Meade 12
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Comet 17P/Holmes, Oct 25th
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Comet 17P/Holmes, Oct 27th
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Comet 17P/Holmes, Animation, Oct 27-28. The original file date stamp for that image was 10/27/2007 10:23 PM. I was on 17p until around 2:20 this morning. I was also using the piggybacked scope to take an image every 10 min. Attached is an animated GIF constructed with these images. There isn't much but you can see some movement during the (approx.) 4 hours. The image is from around 10:00pm thru 2:20 AM this morning.
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Comet 17P/Holmes taken October 28, 2007 19:05 - 20:48 hours , taken at prime focus through my 8
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Comet 17P/Holmes taken October 28, 2007 19:05 - 20:48 hours , captured in AVI file using my DBK21AF0.4AS firewire CCD Astronomy Camera by Imaging Source. and imaged through 8
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Comet 17P/Holmes taken October 28, 2007
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Comet 17P/Holmes in outburst
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Comet 17P/Holmes in outburst
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Comet 17P/Holmes in outburst
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Comet 17P/Holmes in outburst, 10/30
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