Russell McMahon wrote:
> 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

You might want to see what Michael Covington is doing to track the progress 
of 17/P Holmes.  He also talks a lot about how he gets his photographs, 
which might be helpful to other amateur astronomers.  Scroll down to get all 
the posts.

http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/michael/blog/0710/



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