Last update: March 15, 1997
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Authors: José Luis Ortiz, Ernesto Sánchez-Blanco Location: Observatorio de Sierra Nevada, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC. Granada (Spain) Optics: 300 mm f/5.4.
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Author: Tim Puckett Optics: 12" LX200 reflector working at f/6. This 24 bit MPEG video of Hale-Bopp was obtained with 90 -30 second exposures taken with an Apogee AP-7 CCD camera. The first exposure was taken on 03-05-97 at 10:10:06 UT, the last exposure was taken 11:16:22. The images were enhanced to show the jets from the nucleus. Full 75 meg AVI Versions or VHS video is available upon request by contacting the observatory at 706-636-1166. Copyright©1997Tim Puckett |
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This image was obtained with a 5" APO f9 mounted
Piggyback on user retrained 16" SCT Meade at the Amtsgymnasiet
i Sondebørg of Denmark by the Astronomy Class (age 15-18).
180 Sec photo, Fuji HG800 Press film, 0424UT + 3 min. Sky conditions : perfect. |
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Author: David
Hanon Location: Ringgold, Georgia Optics: 300mm lens at f/4 and ST-8 ccd camera. The image was a 2 minute exposure. The time of exposure was at 11:05 UT. |
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Author: Herman Mikuz Location: Crni Vrh Observatory (Slovenia) Optics: 4/90mm lens, CCD and H2O+ filter, centered at 620nm (FWHM=10nm). False-color image taken at 5.180UT (start). Exposure time was 5 minutes. The field of view is 5.5ox4.1o. North is at the top, East to the left. |
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Author: Ian Griffin Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa (Florida) Optics: Maksutov 12" f/5 telescope and SBIG ST8 camera. Lumicon Swann band filter. 5 minutes exposure, starting at 09:50 UT. The field of view is 0.3 degrees (long axis) by 0.2 degrees (short axis). The image has been processed using Mira. A 45 by 45 median filtered masked image was substracted from 105% of the original first image. Second one has been flat fielded and dark substracted. |
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Author: Stephane Potvin Location: St. Luc Dorchester, Quebec (Canada) Optics: 6" f/5,1 refractor and CCD SBIG St-7 camera. |
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Author: George Zay Location: Descanso, California Optics:200mm f3.5 lens (piggybacked). TMAX400 film. 30 minutes exposure. There were no wind at all... Sky LM near 5.6 and clear. Hopefully I'll have something worthwhile? I will try to develop the black and white image this evening from work... |
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Author: Alessandro Dimai Location: Col Druscie Observatory, Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italia) Optics: Takahashi 102mm f/6. Kodak Express Gold 400 II hypered film. The comet was of magnitude 0.1. Despite the Moon, 12 degrees of ion tail and about 5 degrees of the dust tail could be seen with the naked eye. |
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Author: Alessandro Dimai Location: Col Druscie Observatory, Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italia) Optics: 100mm lens at f/2.8. |
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Author: Paolo Candy Location: Cimini Mountains, Viterbo (Italy) Optics: Nikkor 400 mm f/2,8 and Fujicolor NPH400 Prof. film Real color image. 25 minutes of exposure. |
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Author: Bill Hutchinson (hutch@corecom.net) Location: Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska Optics: Nikon N90 50mm f2, 20 seconds exposure on Kodak Ektachrome 400X. A good reason to get up early and look over your roof. This photo appeared (with my permission) on CNN television. |
