hello
went out tonight and looked at comet holmes, it is in the constellation perseus.if you go to 'heavens above' web site you will find more details.

Thanks for letting us know about it, I had no idea. Is it viewable with the naked eye?

hi
you can see it with the naked eye,but looking though 16x50 binoculars you can see it quite well, it was a very hard object to spot and suddenly it has exploded in to a very bright object now.

Thank you for letting us know. Sorry to be a pain but is it still visible now? The couple of times I've been out to have a look has been cloudy (no surprises there!).

hi riana
yes it is still visible but you do need a telescope or binoculars to see it best,' heavens above' web page will show you where to look

It's an impressive sight, worth looking at through binoculars at least. Find Pleiades and go about a hand span to the left and up a bit to Perseus. Comet holmes is right in the middle.

Additional:

I've just come back from walking the dog, it's 10.45 pm and the sky has cleared. Currently, Comet Holmes is virtually directly overhead, so it's a hand span (fingers and thumb spread wide and the distance from tip of thumb to tip of little finger) vertically up and a little to the left of Pleiades. I don't know if it's my imagination, but it looks bigger tonight than it did on Saturday night. Big fuzzy ball, easily distinguished from the stars surrounding it.

This post was last modified: 05-11-2007 11:01 PM by wild canon.

Clear sky tonight, so I thought I would have a go at photographing comet Holmes:





These were taken with my Canon 400D fitted to my Kowa 824 spotting scope via a SLR adapter which gives me an 850mm f13.5 telephoto. I set the ISO to 1600. I have made minimal adjustments in Photoshop, simply reduced the image to grey scale and altered the levels a little.

I'm sure it's again bigger than last time I looked at it.

Great photos! Thanks for posting! The technical camera details went way over my head but I find it very impressive that you managed to get a photo of an object like this.