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Observer: Daniel Laszlo
Location: Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado
Date: March 6, 1997 11:17 UT
1997 March 6 1117 UT, exposure 5 minutes Celestron 8 inch f/1.5 Schmidt camera, tracking the comet's pseudonucleus. This revealed filaments in the ion tail. Ektachrome E100S, standard E-6 processing. One dust spot edited, but no other processing. You might enjoy boosting the contrast a bit.
Pawnee National Grasslands, west of Briggsdale, CO, USA
c1997 Daniel Laszlo, DJLaszlo@aol.com
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