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Observers: H. Fukushima, N. Yamamoto
Location: National Astronomy Observatory, Japan
Date: April - November 1996

Images taken using the NAOJ 50cm reflector with a CCD camera.

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Copyright Gordon Garradd
Observer: Gordon Garradd
Location: Loomberah, New South Wales, Australia
Date: April 5, 1996 18:26 UT

200 sec exposure North is up in this 15' square field. False colour palette applied to show detail in the bright inner coma as well at the very faint, but gradually brightening, dust tail to the SouthWest. This dust tail has been developing over the past 2 months and extends out of the SW corner of this image. Taken with a 25cm f/4.1 Newtonian and HI-SIS 22 CCD.

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Copyright John Chumack
Observer: John Chumack
Location: Steward Observatory, Tuscon, Arizona
Date: April 10, 1996 08:16 UT

250cm @ F6.3 SCT, ST-6 CCD.

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Observer: ???
Location: Kumanmoto Civil Astronomical Observatory, Japan
Date: April 13, 1996

41cm F6L f1/2 400mm, 30 second exposure.

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Copyright Gordon Garrad
Observer: Gordon Garradd
Location: Loomberah, New South Wales, Australia
Date: April 13, 1996 16:45 UT

200 sec exposure. North is up in this 23' X 15' field. False colour palette applied to show detail in the bright inner coma as well at the very faint, but gradually brightening, dust tail to the SouthWest. This dust tail has been developing over the past 2 months and extends out of the SW corner of this image Taken with a 25cm f/4.1 Newtonian and HI-SIS 22 CCD.

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Observer: Herman Mikuz
Location: Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia
Date: April 17, 1996 03:00 UT

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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Observer: Josep Trigo
Location: Benicassim (Castellon), Spain
Date: April 18, 1996

Image taken with objective of 200mm (Kodak film) with a a (T)173 in focus.

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Observer: ???
Location: Kumanmoto Civil Astronomical Observatory, Japan
Date: April 20, 1996

HPC-1/Teleris cold CCD camera.

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Observer: ???
Location: Kumanmoto Civil Astronomical Observatory, Japan
Date: April 24, 1996

13cm F4.8L HPC-1 Teleris400. 120 second exposure.

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Observer: ???
Location: Kumanmoto Civil Astronomical Observatory, Japan
Date: April 26, 1996

41cm F6L, Color CCD camera STARDOM BT-11C.

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Observer: David Hanon
Location: Ringgold, Georgia
Date: April 28, 1996 09:40 UT

The image was taken with my 180mm f/9 refractor and ST-8 ccd camera. The mean time of exposure was 09:40 UT on 4/28/96. The image is the result of (20) 30 sec exposures. The image scale is just under 30 min across.

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Observer: David Hanon
Location: Ringgold, Georgia
Date: April 29, 1996

Grayscale image taken with a ST8 7" F/9.