Images of comet Hale-Bopp taken during the period July 1995 - May 1996
July 24, 1995
V-filter image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken one day after discovery, on 1995 July 24 at 21:03UT (start), with the 20-cm, f/2 Baker-Schmidt camera and ST-6 CCD. Exposure time was 300s.
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May 30, 1996
False color image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken on 1996 May 30.066UT with the 20-cm, f/2 Baker-Schmidt camera, V-filter and ST-6 CCD. Exposure time was 180 sec. The frame field of view is 1.2x0.9 deg. Note the fairly large ~20' coma and broad ~0.5o tail in PA ~225o.
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May 25, 1996
Unfiltered false-color CCD image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken on 1996 May 25, with the 25-cm, f/11 S-C telescope, at the University of Ljubljana Astronomical Observatory. Exposure time was 200 sec, starting at 1:48:32UT. The frame field of view is 12.0x9.3 arc min. The authors are A. Vesel and P. Repinc.
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Images taken on May 29, 1996
Series of narrow-band filter images were taken in the morning of 1996 May 29 from the Crni Vrh Observatory in very good conditions. Using the logarithmic display, the coma shows clockwise spiral structure. The initial burst of material starts from the central condensation at PA ~0o, continues in clockwise direction and finally broaden to ~20' fan-like tail, about 30' long in PA ~270o.
False-color CCD image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken on 1996 May 29.063UT (center), with the 20-cm, f/2 Baker-Schmidt camera, Wright CCD and dust continuum filter, centered at 647nm (FWHM=10nm). Exposure time was 10 minutes. The frame field of view is 1.3x1.1 deg. Logarithmic scale was used for better reproduction of inner coma details.
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White-black version of the previous image.
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False-color CCD image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken on 1996 May 29.072UT (center), with the 20-cm, f/2 Baker-Schmidt camera, Wright CCD and H2O+ filter, centered at 620nm (FWHM=10nm). Exposure time was 5 minutes. The frame field of view is 1.3x1.1 deg. Logarithmic scale was used for better reproduction of inner coma details.
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White-black version of the previous image.
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May 24, 1996
False-color CCD image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken on 1996 May 24.066UT (center), with the 20-cm, f/2 Baker-Schmidt camera, ST-6 CCD and V filter. Exposure time was 180 sec. The frame field of view is 1.2x0.9 deg.
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White-black version of the previous image.
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May 22, 1996
Unfiltered false-color CCD image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken on 1996 May 22, with the 25-cm, f/11 S-C telescope, at the University of Ljubljana Astronomical Observatory. Exposure time was 30 sec, starting at 0:15UT. The frame field of view is 8.5x9.0 arc min. The authors are A. Vesel and P. Repinc.
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April 17, 1996
False-color image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken on 1996 Apr. 17, with the 36-cm, f/11 S-C telescope, CCD and V-filter. Exposure time was 3 minutes, starting at 3:00UT. The frame field of view is 9.0x6.7 arc min.
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March 1, 1996
The first image taken after the comet conjuction. Comet Hale-Bopp was just rising above the pines and the image was taken as the dawn started on 1996 Mar. 1 with the 20-cm, f/2 Baker-Schmidt camera, ST-6 CCD and V filter. Exposure time was 180s, starting at 4:22:31UT.
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