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Observer: Hal Weaver
Location: Hubble Space Telescope
Date: September 26-27, 1995
First Image: In this stretch none of the pixels are saturated, so you can see more clearly the location of the nucleus. The peak pixel intensity is about 3.5 times brighter than the intensities in the clump of dust to the NW of the nucleus.
Second Image: The stretch used here makes the coma look a little like a question mark.
Third Image: The intensity stretch was chosen to emphasize the ``clump'' of dust located 1.35 arcsec directly above the nucleus, which is near the center of the frame. The peak pixel intensity at the nucleus is about 3.5 times brighter than the brightest pixels in the clump. However, the intensities in the clump are about 8 times brighter than expected for dust flowing uniformly out from the nucleus.
Also, for more information on these images, see the Comet Hale-Bopp - News and Views home page created by Applied Research Corp.
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