Saturday, November 17, 2007

Comet Holmes 4

The comet is now very close to Mirfak (Alpha Persei). I have been following it with binoculars over the last few nights as the comet approached ever closer to the star and it's coma expanded. It now has a diameter of 30 arcminutes making it appear as large as the Sun or the full Moon. A truly fantastic astronomical sight.

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