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Comet 17P/Holmes with M 34

Comet 17P/Holmes with M 34

At the end of December 2007 in addition to the close encounter of M33 with Comet 8P/Tuttle, Comet 17P/Holmes has been sharing the same area of the sky with the next Messier object, the open cluster M34. On the same night as I did the M33 with comet Tuttle sketch I also did one of M34 with comet Holmes. In order to see the two within the same FOV I used my f/6.8, 80mm ED refractor and a widefield 40mm eyepiece. Even then with this approximately 4 degree FOV the two just barely fit in the view. In order to do the sketch some sense of justice I did an interlocking adjacent FOV sketch. This is how I saw things on the night of Dec. 30, 2007 at 2030hrs PST.