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BADAS Gallery - Comets

 
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Comet 17P/Holmes

Photographed by Andrew Elliott.

Single shot with Canon 300D at prime focus of Meade 16" LX200 SCT

The nucleus is the lower left most "star" within the coma, the other two are just background stars. Note the comet's green outer halo seen in this image, thought to be due to fluorescing C2 and CN molecules.

 

Comet 17P/Holmes

Photographed by Tony Bradley.

Canon 300D at prime focus of Celestron 9.25" SCT. 15 x 20s Subs stacked with dark frame subtracted.

 

 

 

 

Image above stretched to show colour detail of outer halo.
 

 

Comet 17P/Holmes

Imaged by Pete Franklin.

Toucam 840k SC1, at prime focus of Orion Optics SPX250. Animation of two images, each made from 40 x 5s sub exposures, stacked in Registax.

 

Comet Hale-Bopp

Photographed by Bob Rutter.

20 seconds with Pentax Spotmatic F camera 55mm lens f/1.8 on Fujichrome Provia 1600
 
 
 
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