Comet Holmes can be seen from the unaided eye, but through the view of a telescope, it appears much larger and much more brilliant. The comet has slightly diminished in brightness, but now has a larger angular extent than stars and planets. It appears that the comet's coma has developed a distinct green appearance in the past week. As seen from Spain, Comet 17P/Holmes also now has a tail. This blue ion tail is created by solar winds that impact the ions in the coma of Comet Holmes and puch them away from the Sun. Starting only 2 weeks ago, Comet Holmes underwent a dramatic and very unexpected increase in brightness. The detail visible in Comet Holmes' tail shows that this dramatic increase in brightness can be related to the explosion of dust and gas, which is complex, ongoing process. During the next month, Comet Holmes' position will change only slightly, so it will be visible for a while. I really like this picture because I have seen Comet Holmes with my naked eye in the northern sky. It is also pretty interesting to know that it has recently developed this tail, and is even more interesting to learn how the tail is formed. This picture shows great detail and the colors are intense. When I looked at it with my naked eye view, it only appeared as a fuzzy spot in the sky, so seeing it this up close and detailed is pretty amazing. Friday, November 9, 2007
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Comet Holmes can be seen from the unaided eye, but through the view of a telescope, it appears much larger and much more brilliant. The comet has slightly diminished in brightness, but now has a larger angular extent than stars and planets. It appears that the comet's coma has developed a distinct green appearance in the past week. As seen from Spain, Comet 17P/Holmes also now has a tail. This blue ion tail is created by solar winds that impact the ions in the coma of Comet Holmes and puch them away from the Sun. Starting only 2 weeks ago, Comet Holmes underwent a dramatic and very unexpected increase in brightness. The detail visible in Comet Holmes' tail shows that this dramatic increase in brightness can be related to the explosion of dust and gas, which is complex, ongoing process. During the next month, Comet Holmes' position will change only slightly, so it will be visible for a while. I really like this picture because I have seen Comet Holmes with my naked eye in the northern sky. It is also pretty interesting to know that it has recently developed this tail, and is even more interesting to learn how the tail is formed. This picture shows great detail and the colors are intense. When I looked at it with my naked eye view, it only appeared as a fuzzy spot in the sky, so seeing it this up close and detailed is pretty amazing. 
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If you'd like some more insight into what's happening with the synchronicity of the recent comet and Nostradamus' Lost Manuscript buzz, then pay close attention.
Following are excerpts from the prophecy I posted worldwide in April of 2006 and reposted on August 11th, 2007, which happens to be my birthday and during the Perseid meteor showers (cometary debris in Perseus...). Notice that Comet 17P (seventeen) Holmes is now in the constellation Perseus?
"Tearful pit dwellers, shaken mightily by the light, ascend from the abyss before a seventeen-star-filled wind."
"A bearded star roars so fiercely that the city upon seven lowly hills quakes grievously, wailing tearfully about shadowy serpentine dens and rocks. Scorched alive by stellar wind, they shamefully drink about double doubled horns afire, long hidden within the golden altar’s simple ark."
Notice that the sum of the digits of 12/21/2012=11?
Also Nostradamus' Quatrain 2:41 appears to be unfolding as we watch...
Here is Wisdom !!
Peace...
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