Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
Comet Hale-Bopp, AlenK
Comet Hale-Bopp
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Comet Hale-Bopp

Comet Hale-Bopp, AlenK
Comet Hale-Bopp
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Comet Hale-Bopp

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A 35mm slide photo of comet Hale-Bopp. It is a 1 minute exposure on a home-made, hand-operated, barn-door mount taken with an SMC Pentax-A 50mm f/2 lens @ f/2 on a Pentax K1000 using Ektachrome P1600 slide film. This is not a very good lens and I probably should have stopped it down. However, subsequent tests showed that stopping it down does not improve the image all that much.

If I had a time machine I would go back and shoot the comet with a DSLR (that I would need to bring with me, of course) but alas...

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Comet Hale-Bopp, AlenK