Comet Hyakutake with Pleiades & Venus


Date & Time: Apr 5 1996, 20:25 JST(+0900), 3min. Exp.
Optical: MC Rokkor f=35mm F2.8, Aperture: F4.8
Auto-guided with Kenko SKY-MEMO Equatorial
Camera: MINOLTA XD
Film: Fujicolor Super G Ace 400
Location: Kofu city, Yamanashi pref.


This image shows you the comet Hyakutake in the beginning of April moving in Perseus. You can see the dusk Venus in left hand side and the Pleiades just near it. I captured the rendez-vous of them with a wide-field photo lens.



Hyakutake on Apr 6 1996(f=200mm tele)
Levy on Aug 24 1990

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