Comet Hale-Bopp on Aug 15 1996

Date & Time:	Aug 15 1996, 22:00 JST(+0900), 20min. Exp.
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:	Fujicolor Super G Ace 400
Location:	Satomi vil., Ibaraki pref.

This comet Hale-Bopp image has been captured in a good transparency night just a typhoon passed. In that day the comet positioned in southeast edge of the constellation of Ophiuchus. The comet had a heliocentric distance of 3.4 a. u. (about 500 million km), over doubled away of the orbit of Mars.
This image shows that the comet has a brightness of 5.5th magnitude and a dense coma in northern part. We can detect a dimmed tail-like structure in eastern direction with a length of about 30 arc minutes.

HB on Oct 5 1996

HB on Jul 13 1996

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