The Jet of Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)

Posted by DaveMitsky
on Thursday, February 12, 2009

by Dave Mitsky 

 

This is an eyepiece projection photograph of a jet extending from the coma of Comet Hyakutake which I took on the night of 1996/3/23 with a Pentax K1000 SLR camera and a 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain.  The location was the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg's Naylor Observatory, which is located two miles northwest of Lewsiberry, Pennsylvania.

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