Comet Hale-Bopp

 

Comet Hale Bopp at his closest approach to earth

Date: 01 April 1997, 21.32h CEST

Lens: f=300 mm f/8 piggyback on CG9

Guiding: manually guided through C9, centered on Hale-Bopp

Exposure time: 20 minutes

Film: Scotch Chrome 400

Brightening at the lower edge of the picture due do the fact that the camera was not light proof.

 

Inner coma with dust spirals

Lens: C9 (f=2350 mm f/10)

Exposure time: 2 seconds

Film: Scotch Chrome 400

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