Comet Hale-Bopp on Oct 5 1996

Date & Time:	Oct 5 1996, from 20:02 to 20:24 JST(+0900)
	Composed 2 shots with 10 minutes exposed
Optical:	TAKAHASHI 13cm(5.1") Newtonian with conversion lens (f=630mm, F4.8)
	Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Camera:	MINOLTA SRT-101
Film:	Fujicrome PROVIA 1600
Location:	Makioka town, Yamanashi pref.

I captured the comet Hale-Bopp getting lower evening west skies day after day in the thin clouds. In that day the comet in Ophiuchus had a visual brightness of 5th magnitude and a geocentric distance of 2.8 a. u (about 420 million km). This image shows a globular cluster of NGC6366 in right hand side.

HB on Feb 9 1997

HB on Aug 15 1996

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