Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)

Posted by DaveMitsky
on Sunday, March 22, 2009

by Dave Mitsky

Here's another unguided, one minute exposure of Comet Hale-Bopp that I captured in April of 1997, with my Pentax K1000 SLR camera and the 5" f/5 achromatic refractor at the ASH Naylor Observatory near Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.  The comet's dust tail had widened considerably by this point in time.

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