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Hill Images of Comet Hale-Bopp

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Observer: Calvin Hill
Location: Grand Prairie, Texas
Date: February 27, 1997 12:14, 12:15 UT

Conditions: partly cloudy with 3/4 Moon Cookbook 245 CCD on a Meade 8" f/6 reflector using a Broadband nebula filter and processed with Multi245. Exposure: (6) 1 second stack-and-track integrations.

Comments: Evidence of a "clump in the jet" as reported earlier by JPL. These 3 images are from a 10 image sequence taken from 12:14:2 9 to 12:15:13 UT. Cookbook 245 CCD on a Meade 8" f/6 reflector using a Broadband nebula filter and processed with AIP245. Exposure: 1 second.
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