[meteorite-list] MORE COMET HOLMES #2

[Chris Peterson]

I've updated the profile at 
http://www.cloudbait.com/gallery/comet/holmes.html with data taken 
tonight. The brighter central coma is now at least twice as wide (6.7 
arcmin across), with some structure showing as far out as 13-17 arcmin.

I did take some images tonight which I may add to the site tomorrow. I 
still see no structure, just a bigger object. Right now I'm running an 
overnight photometric sequence, so I'll see tomorrow how the brightness 
might be changing with time (that will actually be a light curve; the 
other data is an intensity profile).

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] MORE COMET HOLMES #2


> According to Chris, the coma is about 3.3 arc minutes across,
> or 230,000 kilometers. The very brightest part is about 2.8 arc
> minutes or 196,000 km across. Chris has a light curve on his
> website (URL below.
>
> Sterling K. Webb