Comet P17/Homes in 6 x 9 degree star field
After seeing many photos of P17 holmes with the larger telescopes and near professional gear, I though: Why not post one with a little telescope? The "telescops" is a Panasonic LZ3 with at 6x zoom f4.5, making this a 8 mm aperture telescope with 36 mm focal length, but a 6x9 degree field of view. The exposure for the attached full field of view was 4x60 seconds at iso80, piggybacked on a Los Mandy tracking tripod, without guiding. The image motion due to pole axis misaligment was was only 6 arcsec/minute. The photos were registered and coadd with IRIS. Photoshop was used only to downsample to 1280x960 to bring the file size of the image from 4 MPixels to 73 Kpixels. Stars down to mv=+10 are visible, some shining theough the comet. Note that the colors of the brighter stars are consistent with the star color classification, M stars are red, B and A stars are blue.
The picture is from 14 November 2007 20:00 PST.
Enjoy the view. P17 is getting dimmer.
hha
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