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Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes)
Perseus
11-10-2007
10x60sec.each RGB
Takahashi FSQ106N @ f/5 530mm
Astro-Physics 900 GTO
Starlight-Xpress SXV-H9
Astrodon G1 LRGB E-Series Filters
MaxImDL 4.11, Photoshop CS,
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Comet Holmes is a periodic comet in the Solar System, discovered by the British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892. Although normally a very faint object, Holmes became notable during its October 2007 return when it temporarily brightened by a factor of about half a million, in what was the largest known outburst by a comet, and became visible to the naked eye. It also briefly became the largest object in the solar system, as its coma expanded to a diameter greater than that of the sun.
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