Comet Hale-Bopp on Jul 13 1996

Date & Time:	Jul 13 1996, 23:37 JST(+0900), 20min. Exp.
Optical:	PENTAX 7.5cm(2.9") ED refractor with conversion lens (f=360mm, F4.8)
	Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Camera:	MINOLTA SRT-101
Film:	Fujicolor Super G Ace 400
Location:	Koumi town, Nagano pref.

In that day the comet Hale-Bopp was lying in the Scutum's Milky Way with a brightness of about 6th magnitude and a heliocentric distance of 3.8 a. u. (about 380 million km). At that time the tail of comet stretched in opposite direction of the Earth, we were seeing the comet just heading on. The star field around here has various nebulae and star clusters, this image shows an open cluster of NGC6649 in Scutum just western side (right-hand side) of the comet.
This image has been cropped with an equivalent focal length of 500 mm.

HB on Aug 15 1996

HB on Jun 15 1996

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