A fuzzy snowball
You could easily describe this as a pretty dreadful photo. However, to me, it remains one of my most remarkable.
Taken 13 years ago to this day, the fuzzy snowball in the centre of the photograph is Comet Holmes. It was taken high up just off the Macclesfield to Buxton Road at a spot where the lights of Greater Manchester are largely hidden. The Lumix bridge camera was balanced on top of the car and made a valiant attempt. It remains the only comet of which I've got a photo, though maybe I should have tried much harder when Hale-Bopp was so visible in 1997.
This 2007 pass of Comet Holmes was notable because it temporarily brightened by a factor of about half a million. It remains the largest known outburst by a comet and not surprisingly became visible to the naked eye.....though you still had to work quite hard to find it in the night sky. Not surprisingly, given the image above, highly specialist equipment would have been needed to get any photo without that unexpected extra luminosity.
A fuzzy snowball
You could easily describe this as a pretty dreadful photo. However, to me, it remains one of my most remarkable.
Taken 13 years ago to this day, the fuzzy snowball in the centre of the photograph is Comet Holmes. It was taken high up just off the Macclesfield to Buxton Road at a spot where the lights of Greater Manchester are largely hidden. The Lumix bridge camera was balanced on top of the car and made a valiant attempt. It remains the only comet of which I've got a photo, though maybe I should have tried much harder when Hale-Bopp was so visible in 1997.
This 2007 pass of Comet Holmes was notable because it temporarily brightened by a factor of about half a million. It remains the largest known outburst by a comet and not surprisingly became visible to the naked eye.....though you still had to work quite hard to find it in the night sky. Not surprisingly, given the image above, highly specialist equipment would have been needed to get any photo without that unexpected extra luminosity.