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Observers: R. Calanca, M. Facchini
Location: Osservatorio Astronomico di Cavezzo, Italy
Date: January 17, 1997 05:00 UT

First image: 0.40 cm telescope, f/3.2, CCD Starlight SXL8, 512x512x15 micron. The image has been treated with the algorithm of Larson-Sekanina (angle: 12 degrees) with a pixel-shift; show a tenous spherical covering surrounds the nucleus. It is also visible a large number of curved jets.

Second image: 0.40 cm telescope, f/3.2 , CCD Starlight SXL8, 512x512x15 micron. Image applied with sawtooth scaling.

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Copyright 1996 Herman Mikuz
Observer: Herman Mikuz
Location: Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia
Date: January 17, 1997 05:01 UT

False-color image taken with 2.8/180mm lens, CCD and narrow-band H2O+ filter, centered at 620nm (FWHM=10nm). Exposure time was 5 minutes. The field of view is 3.8x2.5 deg. North is at the top, East to the left.

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Observers: Tomasz Kwiatkowski, Tadeusz Michalowski
Location: Poznan Observatory, Poland
Date: January 17, 1997 05:20 UT

The first image is a 10 second exposition. It was obtained with a 25 cm, F=1500 mm Newton and an ST-6 CCD camera (the frame is corrected for dark current and flat field). The image is 20 arcminutes long and 12 arcminutes wide. The second image has been unsharp masked to reveal subtle details in the coma. The third image is a standard rainbow mapping of different intensity levels within the coma. Approximate direction of the cometary motion and the direction towards the Sun help to interpret the picture.

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Observers: Milos Tichy, Z. Moravec
Location: Klet Observatory, Czech Republic
Date: January 16, 1997 05:25 UT

Image taken with 0.57-m f/5.2 reflector + CCD camera SBIG ST-8 of and is a 20 seconds exposure. The field of view is 16 to 10 arcminutes with north to the top and west to the right.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 17, 1997 10:21:26 UT

Image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 10 sec exposure. The Observatory is part of the University of Puerto Rico, located in the city of Mayaguez, western coast of Puerto Rico ( lat=3D18 N, long 67 W ). The field of view in each image is 5.5X7.7 arc min. The image is unprocessed.

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Observer(s): Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: January 17, 1997 11:15:54 UT

First image is composite of 9 45 second exposures of Comet Hale Bopp. SBIG ST8 CCD image, taken at the prime focus of a 12 inch f5 maksutov telescope. Image has been flat fielded, but apart from that is unprocessed. Image dimensions 31 arcminutes (long axis) by 20 arcminutes (short axis) Second image is the original composite image has been unsharp masked and scaled in photoshop to reveal (what I hope are real!) streamers around the coma of the comet.

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Observer(s): Astronomy Class (Students Age 16-18)
Location: Sonderborg Observatory, Denmark
Date: January 17, 1997 16:51:34 UT

Very Difficult observing conditions, heavy fog, frost. 100 Sec. CCD photo. Vertical Image Size: 1200 Arcsec. No filters, free transmission. Fog + light pollution due to high airmass, airplane in lower right corner.

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Observer: Young-Sik Park
Location: Mt. Sobaek Observatory, South Korea
Date: January 17, 1997 20:49, 21:10 UT

Exp. Time : 10 Minutes
Camera : Bronica 6X6
Lens : Nikon 200mm(f/4)
Film : Fujichrome Provia 1600(ISO 1600)
Mount : 24inch Cassegrain Telescope

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Observer: Gregor Krannich
Location: Wuenschendorf, Erzgebirge mountains, Germany
Date: January 18, 1997 04:27 UT

The image is taken with a 200mm f/3.5 lens on Fujicolor super G 400 film, 4 min exposure time, guided with AS 100/1000 refractor.

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Observer: Gerald Rhemann
Location: Ebenwaldhohe, Austria
Date: January 18, 1997 04:44 UT

Exposure: 3 Min.
Film: Kodak Pro Gold 400
Schmidt camera 225/255/435mm
Mag.: 2.7
ca. 20 vom Kopf entfernt ist ein auffalliger Schweifknoten zu sehen
Gasschweif: 2 degrees
Gegenschweif: 1.5 degrees (sehr hell)

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Observer(s): Alessandro Dimai, Davide Ghirardo
Location: Col Druscie Observatory, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Date: January 18, 1997 06:00 UT

Image taken Takahashi 102 mm f/6, exp. 8', and Kodak Express Gold 400 II hyper. The comet was of magnitude 2.5 with a ion tail of ~2 deg. and an antitail of ~1.5 deg.

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Observer(s): Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 18, 1997 10:12:05 UT

Image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 10 sec exposure. The field of view in each image is 5.5X7.7 arc min. The image is unprocessed.

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Copyright John Cordiale 1997
Observer: John Cordiale
Location: Queensbury, New York
Date: January 18, 1997 11:00 UT

This ST5 CCD image approximages the visual appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp. I estimated the magnitude to be slighty below 3.0 at this point in time. A 65 mm Takahashi Flourite refractor on an EM-1 mount with exposure times of 3 x 60 seconds captured this image.

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Observer: Paolo Candy
Location: Viterbo, Italy
Date: January 19, 1997 04:30 UT

400 mm f/2.8 camera lens Nikkor IF-ED on CG Losmandy + Deepsky Lumicon filter - Fujicolor 800 Super G Plus film 15 minutes of exposure guiding by C5. (Electronic work by PhotoShop 3.0 and solarized effect)

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Observer(s): Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 19, 1997 10:16:39 UT

Image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 10 sec exposure. The field of view in each image is 5.5X7.= 7 arc min. The image is unprocessed.

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Observer(s): Stephane Potvin, Michel Saint-Laurent
Location: St-Luc Dorchester, Quebec, Canada
Date: January 19, 1997 10:45 UT

This is a 300 seconds exposure of comet Hale Bopp. Camera SBIG ST7 ccd image, taken at the prime focus of a 100 mm f 12 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope. Image has been flat fielded and log scaled. With ours authorisations MSTL and SP

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Observer(s): Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: January 20, 1997 11:07:20 UT

First image is a 50 second exposure of Comet Hale Bopp. SBIG ST8 CCD image, taken at the prime focus of a 12 inch f5 maksutov telescope. Image has been flat fielded, but apart from that is unprocessed. Image dimensions 31 arcminutes (long axis) by 20 arcminutes (short axis). Second image is the original image has been unsharp masked in photoshop using 500% effect with a 15 pixel radius with a threshold of 0 to reveal (what I hope is real!) structure around the coma of the comet. .

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Observer(s): Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 20, 1997 10:29:44 UT

Image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector with 1.0 sec exposure. The field of view in each image is 5.5X7.= 7 arc min. The image is unprocessed.

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Observer(s): David Hanon
Location: Ringgold, Georgia
Date: January 20, 1997 11:15-11:20 UT

First image is a (10) sec exposure with a 180mm f/2.5 lens and ST-8 ccd camera. The second image is a 60 sec exposure taken with the same setup.

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Observer: Jim Hammer
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Date: January 20, 1997 12:20 UT

This image of comet Hale Bopp was taken with a Cookbook 245 ccd camera, surplus 160 mm fl f2.8 lens, 8 x 3 second stacked exposures from my roof in the middle of Wichita. No drive was used, just a crude alt az mount and tracked & stacked exposures with Superfix.

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Observer(s): Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 21, 1997 10:16:28 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 15 sec exposure. The field of view in the image is 23X17 arc min. Second image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 10 sec exposure. The field of view in the image is 5.5X7.7 arc min.

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Observers: Gary Holmes
Location: Alabama
Date: January 21, 1997 11:00 UT

130-mm Celestron Schmidt photo of Comet Hale-Bopp. Kodak 2415 film, hypered, with red filter, 6-minute exposure. North is up in the image, started at 1100 UT on 21 January the scanned region is about 2 by 3 degrees.

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Observer: David Renneke
Location: Milan, Illinois
Date: January 21, 1997 12:18 UT

This picture was taken using a Meade 8" telescope and an SBIG ST-6 CCD camera. This was a 2 second exposure. The size of the photo is 28' x 18'. The comet was a distance of 2.47 AU from Earth and 1.88 AU from the Sun.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 23, 1997 10:06:19, 10:21:48 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 15 sec exposure. Second image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 10 sec exposure.

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Observer: Alberto Quijano Vodniza
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: November 9, 1996 - October 11, 1997

Images taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 24, 1997 10:08:31, 10:16:45 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 15 sec exposure. The field of view in each image is 23X17 arc min. The image is unprocessed. Second image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 10 sec exposure. The field of view in each image is 7.3X5.5 arc min. The image is unprocessed.