Continuous monitoring of comet Holmes from before the 2007 Outburst

Ehab E. El-Houssieny; Robert J. Nemiroff; Timothy E. Pickering

doi:10.1007/s10509-010-0350-x

Continuous monitoring of comet Holmes from before the 2007 Outburst

Ehab E. El-Houssieny, Robert J. Nemiroff, Timothy E. Pickering

Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory

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The outburst and subsequent brightness evolution of comet 17P/Holmes has been observed using the MMT Observatory's All-Sky Camera (Pickering 2006) on Mt. Hopkins near Tucson, Arizona, USA. The comet was picked up at the limiting visual magnitude of 5.5 on October 24.38 and tracked by the camera continuously until sunrise four hours later. During this time the comet brightened to visual magnitude 3.5. Comet Holmes was next observed just after sunset on October 25.23 at visual magnitude 2.5, where it remained approximately constant over the next three days. The comet then began to dim slowly and was followed into the early months of 2008 with periods of dense time coverage.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	19-22
Number of pages	4
Journal	Astrophysics and Space Science
Volume	330
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-010-0350-x
State	Published - 2010

Keywords

Brightness variation
Comet Holmes
The total magnitude formula

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