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Old 11-17-2007
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I photographed it a couple of nights ago from my front yard, I was impressed to see it via the naked eye, What I do find strange is the way it has brightened, In my Photo, you can clearly see the Nucleus and what appears to be a faint tail along with other small tails or jets of material, and the big circular glow that completely surrounds it.
the puzzling part for me is the lack of a Compressed bow shock in the circular glowing cloud from the Solar Wind, it seems to be out gassing without the Bow shock effect.
I will try to upload my image of it later, the image I made was more of an attempt to capture the nucleus, so the round Halo surrounding it is not as pronounced but it is clearly visible.

Edit : here is my image of Holmes Without processing. I took this image as a Jpeg so no further enhancements have been made you can clearly see the Blue Halo around my stars from CA that has not been removed yet.
I can see a small bow shock at the front of the nucleus but no bow shock is visible in the much larger Halo.

Dennis
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