November 26, 2007
Comet Holmes, short refractors and wider video fields
I continue to experiment with wide field possibilities with the video camera. The true fov of view of a camera such as the MallinCam Color Hyper that I use is inherently small because of the size of the CCD chip...November 24, 2007
MallinCam FOV tests
My test equipment: 8-inch Celestron NextStar SE SCT F10 2” WO diagonal Color Hyper MallinCam MFR-3 10mm, 10mm, 5mm extensions Philips PET 1002 10.2-inch DVD player Canon Digital Rebel – screen photographs at 1/6-second with image stabilized lens My target:...November 18, 2007
Comet images and an education
I've decided to create a summary of my Comet Holmes images in chronological order in this posting with the plan of adding to them here as time goes on. I'm not particularly proud of them, but they have taught me...November 16, 2007
Mystery, awe, and a comet
Update: My apologies. Comet Holmes has gotten a lot more attention by the media than I thought. So ignore my rants about the media. The rest of this update on the status is - I believe - on target. (See...November 08, 2007
Holmes, Mirfak, color and questions
OK - educate me. First, Comet Holmes certainly shows distinctive, straw-like, color in this 30-second shot taken last night with the Canon Digital Rebel piggybacked on the LX90 and a 75mm lens. But once I finished staring at the...November 05, 2007
Comet Holmes -bigger and better and a bit fainter
Donna and Jim and Ben and Martha were out tonight to enjoy the continuing Holmes show. It was great anyway you looked at it. To the naked eye it now makes a new, but perfect triangle with Mirfak and Delta...November 04, 2007
Zooming in on Holmes in the morning
Another beautiful morning, so I tried my first shots with the Canon Digital Rebel mounted on the LX90. I then combined three different views through a wide angle lens and zoom to show how the comet appears to the naked...November 03, 2007
A thousand words indeed . . .
Here's an extraordinary photo of Comet Holmes. Spaceweather.com describes this as "one of the strangest and most beautiful photos of a comet ... ever." I sense in the editor's comment the feeling of desperation many of us who haveviewd Comet...November 02, 2007
Comet Holmes- 2 arc minute tail - comet within comet
This morning was wonderfully clear and using the 8-inch and the MallinCam and a 12-second integration I was able to easily observe an apprent dust tail on Comet Holmes of about 2-arc minutes. made the comet look like a speeding,...November 01, 2007
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