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Observer: Jose-Luis Ortiz and colaborators
Location: Observatorio de Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain
Date: March 6, 1997 04:51 UT
2-minute exposure of comet Hale-Bopp taken through a 300-mm lens at f/5.4 using a 1024 x 1024 CCD detector with no filter. The field of view is 2.4 x 2.4 degrees. The inner part of the coma was saturated in order to observe the tail. North is up, West is to the right. This image was obtained on March 6th, UT=4:51, at the Observatorio de Sierra Nevada of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC, in Granada (Spain), by Jose-Luis Ortiz and colaborators.
Jose Luis Ortiz
ortiz@iaa.es
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