These images of Comet Machholz 1 were obtained by SOHO on 14 and 15 October 1996.
Both were obtained by the Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO, C3). The
top image was obtained on the 14th at 13:54:06 UT. The bottom image was obtained on the
15th at 00:30:05 UT. The images were processed by a href=