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Observers: Loke Kun Tan, Andy Castellano
Location: Red Rock Canyone State Park, California
Date: March 31, 1997 03:10 UT
First image taken with a Celestron/Epoch 8" Schmidt camera.
The second image of Hale-Bopp was taken near Red Rock Canyon, California on March 30th with a Pentax 6x7, 90mm f2.8. You can see the Andromeda galaxy (M31) below the comet. We were experiencing about 25 mph desert winds and I was concerned about the wind effecting the steadiness of my mount while I was guiding. Fortunately, not far off from the dirt road was a dried up river bed with an embankment which was about 10 feet high. We set up in the dried river bed which shaded much of the wind.
Loke Kun Tan
tan@broadcom.com
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