Well known very dim periodic comet which is hard to find at 
the best of times suddenly increases in brightness a million 
fold about a week ago.
Pretty much a northern hemisphere event alas. (If it can 
hang on at that brightness for another 2 weeks I may get to 
see it.)

Cometography account of recent outburst

    http://cometography.com/pcomets/017p.html

Indicative photo
"Just another star" :-)

        http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/holmes/24oct07/Martin-Mc-Kenna1.jpg

Universe today

        http://www.universetoday.com/2007/10/24/comet-17pholmes-erupts-in-the-sky/


        http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=1314


        http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=Comet+17P%2FHolmes&meta=
    http://news.google.co.nz/news?q=Comet+17P/Holmes&num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title





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