It seems like I haven’t found the best setting to image 17P/Holmes. I just got a very noisy (offset too high) image with no detail. Time to go to CloudyNights.com to ask the community why.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the comet last night. Although the clouds are still there, I could still easily spot it by its “nebulosity”. I found that the telescopic view (8″ LX90 2000mm) was more spectacular than the the binocular (Meade 9×63mm). If you had watched Armageddon, you would quickly recognize the comet as the asteroid in the movie. It looks so threatening to us but it’s not going to collide with us. So, NASA doesn’t have to send Bruce Willis to drill a hole there.
All right, good weather is gone again. Let’s hope the sky will clear soon.
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