I just came in from another low-power session with Holmes.
The coma is getting larger and more diffuse, and the nucleus is getting dimmer in proportion to the coma. Naked eye, the comet seems about the same magnitude as last night, which is about ~3 to my eyes, or equal with Delta Persei.
The yellowish color is entirely gone to my eyes, others may see differently. Also, the creamy or ivory aspect seems to be fading as well and being replaced by a more straight whitish hue.
I made these observations at 15x to 72x with a Pentax 50/600 achromat before the Moon rose to interfere.
Strangely, the nucleus did not seem as off-center as last night. Perhaps last night I was catching hints of the ejecta stream (tiny pseudo tail inside the coma coming off the nucleus, I don't know the proper terminology) that at very low powers was not fully resolved and made the nucleus look off-center to me?
It's still an interesting object to look at.
Regards and clear skies,
MikeG
-------------------- Michael Gilmer - Member of the Meteoritical Society & Collector of Falling Stars.
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