We photographed comet 17P/Holmes at 4.11.2007 at 18.21 local time at THO. Weather was good, temperature was about -7 Celsius. No clouds. Photograph: Markku Nissinen and Veli-Pekka Hentunen. 12 inch Meade OTA, Paramount ME, 0,5 Optec focal reducer, Canon EOS 350D.  

The structure of the coma of comet 17P/Holmes has slightly changed since previous observing at 31.10/1.11.2007 night. Photographs are taken using Meade 12 inch Optical Tube + Paramount ME + Optec 0,5X NextGen focal reducer with Canon EOS350D camera. Comet was high on the sky but the weather was not very good, many clouds were […]

(Tämä uutinen suomeksi) Comet Holmes is still a very bright object in the night sky. Here are a few photographs that the research team member Harri Haukka took in Espoo 01.11.2007 about 19:00 (finnish time). The comet was so bright that it was visible even when there was lot of light pollution in the sky. […]

Bright comet 17P/Holmes is photographed at THO 31.10.2007 evening at 21.06 local time. Observer: Markku Nissinen. 12 inch Meade + Paramount ME + focal reducer 0.5 NextGen + Canon EOS 350D. ISO 400. 30s exposure.

The comet 8P/Tuttle was observed at THO 22./23.10.2007 21:54 – 22:21 finnish time (+3h UTC). This picture is a combine of 9×150 sec. exposured CCD -picture. The comet is the faint misty object in the middle of the picture. The field of view is 6,3×4,6 arc minutes. (Tämä uutinen suomeksi) Observers: Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen. […]

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, discovered 1925, orbits the Sun behind the Jupiter in quite round orbit. It does not come near the Sun and therefore it can be only observed by the telescope and CCD -camera. The interesting thing in this comet is that it has a material bursts time to time. These bursts can effect so that the […]

Comet 93P/Lovas 1 is near the Sun every ninth year. Comet does not reach the higher magnitude than mag. 13, so it is mainly only a comet that can be observed with telesopce and CCD -camera. Taurus Hill Observatory research group member Veli-Pekka Hentunen photographed this comet in 12./13.10.2007 4.05 – 4.23 finnish time. The comet was […]

The comet C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) was observed at Taurus Hill Observatory 10.10.2007 05:15 – 05:26 finnish time (+3h UTC). Just after the photographing the clouds came and it started to rain water and snow. In this picture the north is in the left and the east in the bottom. This picture is a combine of […]

Comet C/2006 VZ13 (Linear) could be easily seen using telescope also visually, if the background sky would not be still very bright. We observed the comet using CCD camera 21/22.7.2007 night. Observers Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen. (tämä uutinen suomeksi)

Observers: Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen 28/29.4.2007 inght at THO. (Tämä uutinen suomeksi) Combined picture: DDP-processed picture: