[BAA Comets] Comet 17P/Holmes: A marked outburst on January 26

[Peter Carson]

Good clean image Nick considering the Moon was nearby. See my 23 min 
exposure here http://www.astromania.co.uk/17P_20150130_2019_PCarson.jpg 
taken 90 mins later than yours. It confirms the offset coma.

Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick James" <ndj at nickdjames.com>
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Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] Comet 17P/Holmes: A marked outburst on January 26


> Here is tonight's deep image of 17P in outburst:
>
> http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2015/17p_20150130_1849_ndj.jpg
>
> The coma "diameter" now exceeds 40 arcsec and it is significantly offset 
> to the east of the bright nuclear condensation. I get a magnitude of 14.7V 
> in a 40 arcsec aperture using UCAC-4 for reference although the sky is 
> very bright due to the nearby moon.
>
> I have been trying to get images of this comet using the big iTelescope 
> CDK instrument in New Mexico but it has been cloudy there for the last few 
> nights. Good to know that Chelmsford beats the weather in New Mexico when 
> it counts!
>
> Nick.
>
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