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Observer: David McDavid
Location: Limber Observatory, Pipe Creek, Texas
Date: April 9, 1996 02:38 UT
Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) at 02:38 UT, April 9, 1996. North is up, east is left, and the field of view is about 3 degrees square. This image is a composite of six 5-s exposures with a Photometrics CCD camera (Thomson 512 CCD) and Robert Reeves' 135-mm Nikon lens at f/4, using the 0.4-m telescope at Limber Observatory as a tracking platform. The bright star to the lower left of the head of the comet is the eclipsing binary Algol (beta Persei), near maximum brightness when this picture was taken.
Comet 1996
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