Comet Hale-Bopp on Feb 9 1997 early morning

Date & Time:	Feb 9 1997, 4:44 JST(+0900), 10min. Exp.
Optical:	TAKAHASHI 16cm(6.3") epsilon (f=530mm, F3.3)
	Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Camera:	VIXEN VX-1
Film:	Fujicolor Super G Ace 400
Location:	Ooizumi vil., Yamanashi pref.

This is my first observation of comet Hale-Bopp in last four months since Oct 1996. I enjoyed a fan-like yellow dust tail and a bluish ion tail stretched in southwest direction through a portable binocular. The ion tail is spilling out the view flame of a focal length of 530mm. In that day the tail had stretched about 15 degrees.
A orange star just right of the comet is gamma Cap (3.5th magnitude). This image has been displayed by turning north direction leftward.

HB on Feb 13 1997

HB on Oct 5 1996

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