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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 25, 1997 10:15:37, 10:19:18 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 20 sec exposure. The field of view in each image is 23.1 X 17.4 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.

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Observer: Nick James
Location: Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Date: January 26, 1997 06:24 UT

The image is a composite of 20 ten-second exposures taken with a 0.3m Newt.+ SX CCD. Processed with a radius 20 median unsharp mask.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 26, 1997 10:23:01 UT

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 23.1 X 17.4 arc min. The image is unprocessed.

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Copyright 1997 John E Cordiale
Observer: John Cordiale
Location: Queensbury, New York
Date: January 26, 1997 11:10 UT

These images of Comet Hale-Bopp were taken with a STS5 CCD Camera. A Celestron C102 Refractor was used, 15 separate 10 second exposures were made. Superfix Image Processing Software was used. The image on the left shows the general coma region. The image on the right shows the inner coma and nuclear region. Magnitude approx. 3.0 42 degrees N Latitude. Taken from Queensbury NY in the Southeastern Adirondack Region.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 27, 1997 09:49:56, 10:12:30 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 30 sec exposure. The field of view in each image is 23.1 X 17.4 arc min. The image is unprocessed. Second image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 5 sec exposure. The field of view is 7.3 X 5.5 . The image is unprocessed

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Observer: Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: January 27, 1997 10:40:39 UT

A 20 second exposure taken through a wratten 25 red filter. SBIG ST8 CCD image, taken at the prime focus of a 12 inch f5 maksutov telescope. Image has been flat fielded. Image dimensions 31 arcminutes (long right ascension axis) by 20 arcminutes (short declination axis) The second image is the original composite image has and processed by substracting a blurred mask from the original using the software program Mira from Axiom research.

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Observer: Pedro Re
Location: Portugal
Date: October 1996 - February 1997

All images were obtained from central Portugal with a C14 and HISIS22 CCD Camera.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 28, 1997 09:44:09, 10:06:07 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 30 sec exposure. The field of view is 23.1 X 17.4 arc min. The image is unprocessed. Second image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. .60 sec exposure. The field of view is 7.3 X 5.5 . The image is unprocessed.

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Observer: Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: January 28, 1997 11:12:58 UT

First image is a 60 second exposure of Comet Hale Bopp, taken through a wratten 25 red filter. SBIG ST8 CCD image, taken at the prime focus of a 12 inch f5 maksutov telescope. Image has been flat fielded . Image dimensions 31 arcminutes (long right ascension axis) by 20 arcminutes (short declination axis) Second is a colour image of Hale Bopp created by combining 3 60 second exposures through red, blue and green filters.

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Observer: Jim Hammer
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Date: January 28, 1997 12:20 UT

Image taken with a Cookbook 245 ccd camera, surplus 160 mm fl f2.8 lens, 7 x 3 second stacked exposures in 378 wide mode from my roof in the middle of Wichita. No drive was used, just a crude alt az mount and tracked & stacked exposures with Superfix. The out-of-focus looking thing at top is, I believe, one of those pesky infrared bright stars that are not focused well by lenses.

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Observer: Herman Mikuz
Location: Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia
Date: January 29, 1997 04:48 UT

False-color image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken in moonlight conditions with 4/90mm lens, ST-6 CCD and narrow-band H2O+ filter, centered at 620nm (FWHM=10nm). Exposure time was 7 minutes. The field of view is 5.5x4.1 deg. North is at the top, East to the left.

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Observer: M. Facchini
Location: Cavezzo Observatory, Italy
Date: January 29, 1997 04:53 UT

Image of Hale-Bopp taken with a telescope of 40cm., F=3D2210 mm., image field 12'x12', Larson Sekanina rotation-translation algorytm (-2 pixel and 15=B0 rotation),false colours. This image shows the enormous gas and dust jets that starts in the core of the comet.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 29, 1997 09:48:03, 09:58:23 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 30 sec exposure. The field of view is 23.1 X 17.4 arc min. The image is unprocessed. Second image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 1 sec exposure. The field of view is 7.3 X 5.5 . The image is unprocessed.

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Observer: Olivier Lardiere
Location: Haute-Provence Observatory, France
Date: January 30, 1997 06:00 UT

Image taken with the 80cm at F/D=15 telescope of Haute-Provence Observatory (France). The CCD images shown a series of concentric hoods. To enhance these hoods, I use the rotational gradient algorithm (S.M.Larson and Z. Sekanina, Astr.J. April 1984). A similar concentric structure has already been observed in Hyakutake comet. Some specialists think that shock waves are the origin of this concentric morphology.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 30, 1997 09:49:40, 10:04:33 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 30 sec exposure. The field of view is 23.1 X 17.4 arc min. The image is unprocessed. Second image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 1 sec exposure. The field of view is 7.3 X 5.5 . The image is unprocessed.

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Observer: Dave Lane
Location: Burke-Gaffney Observatory, Halifax, Canada
Date: January 30, 1997 10:07 UT

First image: 15s CCD (ST8) image (north up, log scaled) with 0.41-m Cassegrain Telescope (f12). Thefield size is about 6'x9'.

Second image: 15s CCD (ST8) image (north up, log scaled, false colour) with 0.41-m Cassegrain Telescope (f12). Third image: 15s CCD (ST8) image (north up, log scaled, negative) with 0.41-m Cassegrain Telescope (f12).

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Observer: Dave Lane
Location: Burke-Gaffney Observatory, Halifax, Canada
Date: January 30, 1997 10:27 UT

First image: 15s CCD (ST8) image (north up, log scaled) with 0.41-m Cassegrain Telescope (f12) Second image: 15s CCD (ST8) image (north up, log scaled, false colour). Third image: 15s CCD (ST8) image (north up, log scaled, negative).

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Observers: Julio Saucedo-Morales, Fernando Avila-Castro
Location: University of Sonora, Mexico
Date: January 30, 1997 13:06 UT

Images taken with a 2" refractor and a CCD ST-4X camera. 90 sec exposure.

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Copyright Takuo Kojima
Observer: Takuo Kojima
Location: Chiyoda, Japan
Date: January 30, 1997 20:36, 20:32 UT

First image:
Exp. time; 120 sec
North is up and  1.3 deg. x 2 deg. field of view
Taken with a 10cm f/4 refractor + ST-8 CCD

Second image:
Exp. time; Total 135 sec
North is up and  20' x 15' field of view
RGB composit image
Taken with a 25cm f/6 reflector + ST-6 CCD

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Observers: Piergiorgio Cusinato, Alessandro Dimai, Davide Ghirardo
Location: Col Druscie Observatory, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Date: January 31, 1997 06:00 UT

Image of the comet Hale Bopp taken with a Takahashi 102 mm f/6, exp. 8', and Kodak Express Gold 400 II hyper. The comet was of magnitude 2,0 with a ion tail of ~3 deg. (with Moon at the se cond quarter in the sky). There isn't an Antitail, but a diffuse and large dust tail.

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Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: January 31, 1997 09:31:37, 10:03:08 UT

First image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 15 sec exposure. The field of view is 23.1 X 17.4 arc min. The image is unprocessed. Second image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 1.0 sec exposure. The field of view is 7.3 X 5.5 . The image is unprocessed.

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Observer: David Hanon
Location: Ringgold, Georgia
Date: January 31, 1997 11:30 UT

The image is a mosaic of (2) exposures The exposures are 2 minutes each with the 7" refractor operating at f/6 and ST-8 ccd camera.

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Observers: Julio Saucedo-Morales, Adolfo Cabral-Porchas, Fernando Avila-Castro
Location: University of Sonora, Mexico
Date: January 31, 1997 12:24 UT

10 second exposure. Refractor 6 cm + CCD ST-4X.

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Observer: Astronomy Class (Students - Age 16-18)
Location: Sonderborg Observatory, Denmark
Date: January 31, 1997 17:18:44 UT

5 x 20 Sec. CCD photo. Vertical Image Size- approx: 1800 Arcsec. No filters, free transmission