Comet Tabur on Sep 15 1996

Date & Time:	Sep 15 1996, 26:27 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 XD
Film:	Kodak Gold 400
Location:	Makioka town, Yamanashi pref.

The comet Tabur in that day was found at 3 degrees west of Betelgeuse of Orion. The comet had a visual brightness of 5th magnitude and a distance of about 100 million km from the Earth. I could detect no tails but a bluish-greened coma.
At that time the comet Hale-Bopp was lying in evening western skies; we could observe two major comets in one night.

Tabur on Oct 19 1996

Hyakutake on Apr 13 1996(f=360mm)

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