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Observer(s): Astronomy Class (Students - Age 16-18)
Location: Sonderborg Observatory, Denmark
Date: January 1, 1997 16:31 UT

100 Sec. CCD photo. Vertical Image Size: 1200 Arcsec. Flatfielded, but no filters, free transmission.

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Observer(s): Astronomy Class (Students Age 16-18)
Location: Sonderborg Observatory, Denmark
Date: January 4, 1997 16:48:41 UT

5" APO f / 9 mounted piggyback on a user retrained 16" SCT Meade. 100 Sec Single CCD exposures, ST6 CCD.

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Observer: Arto Oksanen
Location: Jyvaskylva, Finland
Date: January 7, 1997 06:00 UT

Taken with ST7 CCD, unfiltered 60s exposure, Ross telephoto lens (600 mm/f6.3 ), north up.

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Observer: Gerald Rhemann
Location: Ebenwaldhohe, Austria
Date: January 8, 1997 05:00 UT

Exposure: Je 4 Min.
Schmidtkamera 225/255/435mm
Film: Kodak Gold Pro 400
Mag.: 3.5     Koma: 204
Schweif: 20`gelber Staubschweif und 1Grad! rvtlicher Gegenschweif!

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Observer(s): M. Okyudo, M. Sakamoto
Location: Misato Observatory, Japan
Date: January 11, 1997

Image obtained using a camera lens (focal length - 105 mm) and cooled CCD camera (ST6).

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Observers: Alessandro Dimai, Davide Ghirardo, Giuseppe Menardi
Location: Col Druscie Observatory, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Date: January 12, 1997 04:50 UT

Exp. 10', Tele 135 mm f/3.5. La cometa h ben visibile ad occhio nudo circa 60 sopra l'orizzonte est. La sua magnitudine h di 2,8 ed in foto h visibile una coda di ioni di circa 1,50 ed un'anticoda di quasi 2 gradi. La chioma ha un'estensione di quasi 20'.

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Observer: Dale Ireland
Location: Silverdale, Washington
Date: January 12, 1997 14:40 UT

Nikon 500 F/4 EDIF, 10 second exposure, ASA 400.

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Observer(s): Otto Fargo
Location: Swabian Observatory, Stuttgart, Germany
Date: January 13, 1997 05:52-05:55 UT

Image taken with a ST-6 at focal length 3910mm. exposure = 60s and 30s. telescope = Celestron 14 (350/3190mm). field = 7.7' x 5.8'. north is up.

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Observer(s): Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: January 13, 1997 11:12 UT

10 second exposure of Comet Hale Bopp. SBIG ST8 CCD image, taken at the prime focus of a 12 inch f5 maksutov telescope.

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Observer: Gerald Rhemann
Location: Ebenwaldhohe, Austria
Date: January 14, 1997 05:05 UT

Exposure: 3 Min.
Kodak Gold Pro 400
Schmidtkamera 225/255/435mm
Koma: 20`   Mag.: 3.3
Schweife: schwacher, strukturloser Gasstrahl 1 degree
stark gekrummter, Staubschweif 0.5 degree, schwacher Gegenschweif 0.5 degree

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Observer: Don Moffatt
Location: Victoria, B.C., Canada
Date: January 14, 1997 13:45 UT

This photo was taken with a 24mm lens, Fuji 1600 film F/1.8, 30 seconds.

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Observer: Frank Niebling
Location: Affalterthal, Germany
Date: January 16, 1997 05:06 UT

Taken with 4" Pentax SDUF, exposure = 8 min, TP2415 hyp.

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Observer(s): Alessandro Dimai, Piergiorgio Cusinato, Marcello Pachner
Location: Col Durscie Observatory, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Date: January 16, 1997 06:00 UT

Image taken with a Takahashi 102 mm f/6, exp. 10', and Kodak Express Gold II hyper.

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Observer: Nick James
Location: Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Date: January 16, 1997 06:24 UT

Taken using an SX CCD and a 0.30m Newtonian. Processed with a radius 20 median unsharp mask and lightly colour coded.

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Observer(s): Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: January 16, 1997 10:28 UT

10 second exposure, SBIG ST8 CCD image, taken at the prime focus of a 12 inch f5 maksutov telescope. Field size is 31 arcmin by 20.8 arcmin. Image has been flat fielded.

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Observer(s): M. Okyudo, M. Sakamoto
Location: Misato Observatory, Japan
Date: January 16, 1997 20:59 UT

A 105-cm reflector detected a close-up R-band image of Comet Hale-Bopp on Jan. 16 20h 59m UT. We used a LN2-cooled CCD camera (AstroCam) equipped with the Cassegrain focus of the 1.05-m reflector (F7.6) at Misato Observatory.

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