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Monday, October 29, 2007
Comet 17P/Holmes
With all the excitement regarding Comet 17P/Holmes, I just had to give it a try. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical about seeing it, here in the badly light polluted Chicago suburbs - my limiting visual magnitude is about magnitude 3 on a good night - but I trudged over to the park, anyway, to see what I could do. One look with my astronomy binocular, though, and I yelped, "Wow!" There it was, like a big snowball, hanging in Perseus, near Algol. In fact, it is actually bright enough, even from my location, to be seen as a "star", but you won't get a clue to the real nature of Comet 17P/Holmes until you see it with a binocular or telescope. In my Nikon 10x70 Astroluxe, it was unmistakable as a comet - I could see a very dense inner core surrounded by a halo of white. Should be a grand sight in even a small telescope.
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