Sziasztok!

Egy üstökös lista (comets-ml@yahoogroups.com ) híre szerint a 17P/Holmes üstökös kitörésben
már kb 4 magnis fényességet érte el.


Üdv,
Szöllősi Attila


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob King
To: comets-ml@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:03 PM
Subject: [comets-ml] Major outburst of 17P/Holmes - naked eye!
Hello,
After hearing of Ramon Naves´ observation last night on comet-images,
I looked at 17P/Holmes with a 25cm reflector at 76x and 214x on Oct.
24, 4:10 UT. The comet was a mag. 7.1 "star" with a yellow hue. This
morning (Oct. 24, 11:15UT), the moon was out of the sky and seeing was
excellent. To my amazement, 17P had brightened to naked eye visibility
being nearly equal to 48 Per at visual mag. 4.0. In the same
telescope, the coma showed an intense, nearly stellar false nucleus
about 2.5"-3" across set in a small, 10" diameter, much fainter,fuzzy
disklike coma. The nucleus was distinctly yellow. The comet´s
appearance was very reminiscent of McNaught last winter when seen in
the daytime sky. What a sight!
Bob King