[meteorite-list] MORE COMET HOLMES #2

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:12:34 -0600
Message-ID: <074101c8178e$da4d6800$0a01a8c0_at_bellatrix>

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
Received on Fri 26 Oct 2007 01:12:34 AM PDT