17P/Holmes dust structure

I was able to get a deep image of the comet tonight without any
moonlight or dust to interfere. Multiple dust lanes are now visible in
the central coma. Clearly, there is some interesting stuff going on
inside. I still can't pull out any hint of a tail (at least, nothing
outside the coma).

The visible coma is about 10 arcmin across, and the entire coma as seen
in an image is about 20 arcmin across. That means Holmes is now the
largest thing in the Solar System, bigger even than the Sun. The latest
image is at the bottom of
http://www.cloudbait.com/gallery/comet/holmes.html .

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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