Comet Holmes 17p

These images taken of Comet Holmes on Sunday Night 11th November with the ST80 telescope and Canon 350D camera - wonderful!
The comet is gradually becoming bigger but more transparent, you can clearly see stars through the coma and the colour is stunning. Apparantly, Comet Holmes lost it's short tail a couple of days ago, but even then it was difficult to image. I think the bow of the comet is facing the Earth and the tail (what there is of it) is trailing behind.
Comet Holmes has reached a diameter of 1.4 million Kilometres, this makes it the biggest object in the solar system, bigger than the Sun in size but not mass.