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Observer: Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: February 13, 1997 10:11 UT
First image is a 60 second exposure of Comet Hale Bopp made using a 12 inch f5 Maksutov Telescope. Images were exposed through a red filter (Wrattan 25) The image has been scaled to show detail in the coma. Image obtained at 5:11 EST on Feb 13th.
The second image is a version of the above image with a false colour pallete.
The third images shows the jets of Comet Hale Bopp. 60 second exposure, processed by subtracting a 10 by 10 pixel median filtered image from the original.
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