10K
Observer: Theo van de Mortel
Location: Deurne, The Netherlands
Date: March 31-April 7, 1997

These drawings of the shell structure are based on observations from a 222mm reflector f/6 (104x).

71K

51K
Observer: Marek Dudka
Location: Genoa (Forest Preserve), Illinois
Date: April 1-7, 1997

1. Camera: Topcon Super D, 100mm, f2.8, approx. exposure time - 10 sec., FujiColor Super G, 800

2. Camera: Topcon Super D, 58mm, f1.4, approx. exposure time - 10 sec., FujiColor Super G, 800

81K
Observers: Herman Mikuz, B. Kambic
Location: Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia
Date: April 7, 1997 19:18-19:30 UT

Color image taken with 20-cm, f/2 Baker-Schmidt camera and Fujicolor 400 SG+ film.

17K
Observer: Joe Roberts
Location: Salem, Connecticut
Date: April 7, 1997

Vivitar 500mm F6.3 lens on Kodak Royal Gold 400 film. Five minute exposure. Guiding piggyback on Celestron CG-11.

96K

104K

97K

99K
Observers: Alessandro Dimai, Renzo Volcan, Davide Ghirardo
Location: Col Druscie Observatory, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Date: April 7, 1997

The 1st image was taken with a 300 mm lens f/2.8, exp. 3', the 2nd with a Takahashi 600 mm f/6 and 6' exp., the 3rd image with a 50 mm f/1.7 and 30" exp. and the 4th image with a 35 mm f2.8 lens.

73K
Observer: Gregory Terrance
Location: Lima, New York
Date: April 7, 1997

200mm Olympus lens at f4, 300 second exposure using an IMG1300 CCD camera from Finger Lakes Instruments. No filters were employed.

40K
Observer: Terry Acomb
Location: Hanksville, Utah
Date: April 7, 1997

Ektapress 1600 film, 50 mm lens, tracked for about 8 minutes.

125K

41K
Observers: Bill Whiddon, Nina Whiddon
Location: Red Rock Canyon State Park, California
Date: April 7, 1997

1. 30 sec at f/4 with 50 mm Nikon, Fuji 800.

2. Hale-Bopp over the Vincent Thomas Bridge at the Los Angeles Harbor. This comet is bright enough to be seen even through some of the most light-polluted skies in the world. 3 sec exposure at f/5.6 with 50mm Nikon and Fuji 800.

15K

10K
Observer: Frank Merting
Location: Germany
Date: April 7, 1997

9K
Observer: K. Good
Location: Oak Hollow Park, Irwin, Pennsylvania
Date: April 7, 1997

210 mm f/4, 30 sec., ASA 1000.

18K

7K
Observer: R. Staniewicz
Location: Wagman Observatory, Deer Lakes Park, Pennsylvania
Date: April 7, 1997

200 mm f/4 20 & 30 sec. exp. ASA 400.

135K

165K

188K
Observers: David Woo, Lauren Mansfield
Location: Patricia Lake, Jasper, Alberta, Canada
Date: April 7, 1997

Canon FTB, 50mm lens, f/1.4, 30sec exp. Kodak 1600 & Fuji 800 film.

169K
Observer: Bob Yen
Location: Borego Desert, California
Date: April 7, 1997

Images of Comet Hyakutake and Comet Hale-Bopp taken on April 7, one year apart.

76K
Observer: Bob Yen
Location: Borrego Desert, California
Date: April 7, 1997

300mm lens.

72K
Observer: Bob Yen
Location: Borrego Desert, California
Date: April 7, 1997

71K

77K

60K

52K

90K
Observer: Bob Yen
Location: Borrego Desert, California
Date: April 7, 1997

15K
Observer: Rett Alonzi
Location: Levenworth, Kansas
Date: April 7, 1997

Kodak 400 film, 300 mm f6.0, 7 Minute exposure.

109K
Observer: Dave Palmer
Location: Ojai, California
Date: April 7, 1997

100 mm lens at f/4, 10 minutes on Kodak PPF.

10K
Observer: George Elias
Location: Wrentham, Massachusetts
Date: April 7, 1997

Olympus OM1 system with a with a 200mm lens using 1000 ASA Kodak Royal Gold film with a 15 second exposure.

38K
Observer: Dave Mitsky
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Date: April 7, 1997

30 seconds, 50mm non-guided camera. Kodak 1000 ISO Royal Gold.

90K
Observer: Vladimir Sevcik
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Date: April 7, 1997

Canon EOS 650, 50 mm. Camera film: FUJI 400, 15-30 sec.

40K
Observer: Bill Russell
Location: Massanutten Mt., McGaheysville, Virginia
Date: April 7, 1997

Fuji 800 Super G in a Canon AE1, a 205 mm zoom,, the zoom set to 80mm, f4.5, for 15 seconds.

29K
Observer: Lee R. Lennington III
Location: Granbury, Texas
Date: April 7, 1997

10 min. exposure on 200 ASA AGFA. Piggyback 4.5F 300mm Lense atop Celestron 8", guided on comet.

19K
Observer: Steven Alred
Location: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
Date: April 7, 1997

Nikon 8008 with a 28mm lens @ f2.8 and kodak 1600 asa film at 15 seconds. The yucca was lite with an sb25 flash.

17K

32K
Observer: Marco Paolo Pavese
Location: Genoa, Italy
Date: April 7, 1997

FUJI 800 ASA
camera NIKON F4
lens Nikon AFD 50mm
F.5.6
TIME 5 sec.

50K

100K
Observer: Peter Gottlieb
Location: Bottrop, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997

Canon EOS 1000 F/N f3,5/28mm, 30sec on FUJI SHG 1600.

54K
Observer: JJ Whittington
Location: San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona
Date: April 7, 1997

Camera: Pentax MX with 50mm f/1.7 lens. Film: Fuji Super G Plus 800. Exposure: f/1.7 for 15 min on scotch mount.

103K
Observer: JJ Whittington
Location: San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona
Date: April 7, 1997

Camera: Canon Elan II with 85mm f/1.8 lens. Film: Kodak Ektapress Multispeed (PJM) at 1000. Exposure: f/1.8 for 10 minutes guided on scotch mount.

47K
Observer: Joao Porto
Location: Azores Islands
Date: April 7, 1997

Sirius CCD camera,the CWIP-S model and the ETX 90mm f/13.8 with exposure times between 2500 and 5000ms.

20K
Observer: Norbert Pilters
Location: Germany
Date: April 7, 1997

Pentacon-Six 80 mm, AGFA 1000 film 25 second exposure.

83K
Observer: Michael Mirjahangir
Location: Huntington Beach, California
Date: April 7, 1997

5 sec. at f/1.9 unguided used 50mm lens and Fuji 800 speed film.

6K

3K
Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: April 7, 1997 00:00:15 UT

The first image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 1.0 sec exposure. The field of view is 23.1 X 17.4 arc min.

Image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 16 inch, F10 reflector. 0.5 sec exposure. The field of view is 7.3 X 5.5 arc min.

17K
Observers: Tony Alonso, Sharon Faris
Location: Estill Springs, Tennessee
Date: April 7, 1997 00:30 UT

10 inch Mead telescope on 1600 FUJI PF film for 3:00 min. each, A clear filter with A very light blue tint was used to highlight the rays of the comet.1

30K

4K
Observer: Michael Boschat
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date: April 7, 1997 00:50, 01:05 UT

1. A 35 sec. exposure on Kodak Gold 400 film with a Zenit-B camera and 58mm f/2 lens.

2. A 15 sec exposure on Kodak Gold 400 film with a Zenit-B camera and 200mm f/3.3 lens. Note star near the 11 o'clock position near the nucleus.

42K
Observer: George Braddock
Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica
Date: April 7, 1997 01:00 UT

Camera: KONICA. Lens: 200 mm f/4. Film: Kodak Technical Pan 2415 Hypered. Exposure Time: 8 minutes.

33K
Observer: Gary McClaran
Location: Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona
Date: April 7, 1997 01:00 UT

Nikon 35mm @ F-2 1min on Fuji Super G 800 film.

8K

23K
Observer: Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: April 7, 1997 01:00 UT

First image is a combination of 6 x 10 second images of Hale Bopp obtained using a red filter and a 12 inch Maksutov telescope has been dark subtracted and flat fielded,and a false colour pallate applied

Second image is 6 x 10 second exposures of Hale Bopp, taken through a red filter have been combined and processed using a rotational gradient filter with rotation angle 10 degrees and amplification 10.

16K
Observer: Joel Seligmann
Location: Purchase, New York
Date: April 7, 1997 01:00 UT

Fuji 6x7 with a 90mm lens at f4. The exposure was made at 20 seconds on Kodak Tri-X Professional film, pushed to 800 asa.

19K
Observer: John Pane
Location: Indiana Township, Pennsylvania
Date: April 7, 1997 01:22 UT

35mm SLR camera on a fixed tripod, 50mm lens at f/2.0, Kodak PJM-640 film, composite of three 15 second exposures. M34 visible through ion tail.

19K
Observer: Frank Marotta
Location: White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas
Date: April 7, 1997 01:40 UT

Equipment: Nikon F3HP, 50mm Nikkor @ f/1.8. Film: Fuji 800SG+.

17K
Observer: Jim Strickland
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Date: April 7, 1997 02:00 UT

Canon AE-1 with 50mm lens. Fuji Super G-800 at f2.8 for approx 40 sec.

78K

37K
Observers: Glenn Ray, Dana Christensen Ray
Location: Fulshear, Texas
Date: April 7, 1997 02:07-03:01 UT

24K
Observer: Joao Porto
Location: Azores Islands
Date: April 7, 1997 02:15 UT

Fuji SG800+, 135mm, 60 seconds.

68K

38K
Observers: Mark Stafford, Kay Brown
Location: Arma, Kansas
Date: April 7, 1997 02:30 UT

Both shots were taken using a Canon EOS on tripod using Fuji SuperG 800 film, a 200mm lens, 15 second exposure at f4.6. No tracking.

48K
Observer: Gary Holmes
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Date: April 7, 1997 03:00 UT

Schmidt, 3 minutes on hypered 2415 film.

36K

62K

36K

29K
Observers: Dewey Vanderhoff, Mack Frost, Andy Frazier
Location: Old Trail Town, Cody, Wyoming
Date: April 7, 1997 03:00-05:00 UT

The photos were done with a Nikon F2AS camera and 35mm f/ 2.0 Nikkor lens on Fuji Super G- 800 print film and scanned from handprinted 8 x 10 color glossies with little correction in Photoshop , except to remove a greenish cast in some shadow zones, owing to a vagrant mercury vapor lamp shining in from a nearby trailer court...aaarrrggghh!!!.

Exposures were in the 25- 45 second range at apertures from f/ 2.0 to f/4.0 and we lit parts of the scene with a powerful flashlight filtered with studio gel filters to convert tungsten color back towards daylight. The buildings were "painted" with the light using 4 second brush strokes, exposure determined with a Minolta-IV incident light meter.

20K

32K

22K
Observer: David Nakamoto
Location: Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California
Date: April 7, 1997 03:04-04:43 UT

C5@/f10, Mead216, 1 second exposures.

22K

25K
Observer: Evan Zucker
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Date: April 7, 1997 03:06, 03:26 UT

Both photos were taken with a Canon A2E with a 50mm f/1.8 Canon EF lens on Fujicolor 800 Super G Plus film.

29K
Observer: Frank Marotta
Location: White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas
Date: April 7, 1997 03:10 UT

Nikon N8008 with 50mm Nikkor set at f 1.8, 15 seconds. Film: Fuji 800 SG+.

13K
Observer: Serge Lavioe
Location: Rawdon, Quebec, Canada
Date: April 7, 1997 03:26 UT

Lens: 72mm diam. f: 3.2, 135mm f.l, I expose 2 minutes on Kodak Royal Gold 1000 a.s.a. Two satellites passing in the comet tails.

26K
Observer: Neal Ulevich
Location: Loveland Pass, Colorado
Date: April 7, 1997 03:30 UT

A Nikon N90s with 135mm f2 lens was used. Exposure of 20 seconds at f2 on Kodak Gold ISO 1000 negative film.

87K

85K

106K
Observer: Wien-Xiang Song
Location: Lakeshore of Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin
Date: April 7, 1997 04:00 UT

First image: Kodak CE 100, 105mm f/1.8, 30 seconds.

Second image: Kodak CE 100, 105mm f/2.8, 30 seconds. (The green trail behind the comet was a scratch by the film developer.)

Third image: Kodak CE 100, 105mm f/1.8, 30 seconds.

66K
Observer: Robert Commagere
Location: Lockwood Valley, California
Date: April 7, 1997 04:15 UT

Instrument: 8-inch f/1.5 Schmidt-Camera. Exposure: 4 minutes on Kodak PPF-400 unhypered.

54K
Observer: Phil Fleming
Location: Arizona
Date: April 7, 1997 04:30 UT

Nikon FM2 50mm f/1.8--Tmax 3200--30 second exposure.

35K
Observer: Paul Cichocki
Location: Red Rock Canyon, Nevada
Date: April 7, 1997 04:30 UT

Minolta 35 mm camera, 28 mm lens f2.4 Fuji Super G 800 print film 25 second exposure.

41K
Observer: Thomas Lowe
Location: Durrance Lake, Canada
Date: April 7, 1997 04:45 UT

Camera: Nikon F 35 mm SLR mounted on a tripod using a 50 mm f/1.8 lens. Film: 30s exposure on Fuji Super AG 800 ASA film.

305K

311K
Observer: Wally Pacholka
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California
Date: April 7, 1997 05:00-05:15 UT

Fuji 800 film and 135mm lens at f/2 mounted "piggyback" on old Tasco 2.4 inch refractor telescope and hand guided for 6 minutes.

49K

56K
Observer: Richard Wainscoat
Location: Oahu, Hawaii
Date: April 7, 1997 06:15 UT

Camera: Mamiya 645 Pro, Film: Fuji Provia 400. Lenses: 45mm f/2.8 (@f/2.8) & 150mm f/2.8 (@f/2.8).

22K

11K
Observer: Jehun Rhee
Location: Kongju City, Choongchung Nam Do, Korea
Date: April 7, 1997 10:50, 10:51 UT

Camera Body     : Olympus OM-1
Lens            : Olympus Zuiko 50mm 1:1.4, Vivitar 70-210mm 1:4.5-5.6 Zoom
Telescope       : DongWon 750R (Catadioptric Reflector, Equatorial, D=114mm,
                  F=1000mm)
Film            : Fuji Super G 800 Plus

9K

8K
Observer: Rainer Timm
Location: Hoehenrain & Walchensee, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 19:05, 21:30 UT

1. The picture is taken with Nikon F 50 50mm/f2 and only 10 seconds. Kodak Pro Gold 400 It shows mercury and Hale-Bopp.

2. Nikon F50 50mm, f1,4 30 sec Kodak Pro Gold 400

33K

14K
Observer: Paolo Candy
Location: Astr. Station Club Parco dei Cimini, Viterbo, Italy
Date: April 7, 1997 19:10 UT

400 mm f/2.8 camera lens Nikkor IF-ED (6inch triplet) on Losmandy mount=20 + Deepsky Lumicon filter - Kodak Gold 200 ISO. FIRST IMAGE (normal): 60 minutes of exposure. SECOND IMAGE (solarized): 5 minutes of exposure + 2X duplicator (800mm= f/5.6). Guiding by C5 on comet nucleus. Very clear sky.

24K

46K
Observer: Fred Wehner
Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 19:10, 20:05 UT

The 1st image is taken with a Tokina Zoom 1:3.5-4.5 28-70mm at 28mm and 35 sec exposure time.
The 2nd image is taken with a Pentax 1:1.4 50mm and 25 sec exposure time.
Both images were made on Fuji Sensia 400.

34K

49K
Observer: Milan Kment
Location: Ceska Trebova, Czech Republic
Date: April 7, 1997 19:30, 19:35 UT

Nikon 2.8/28mm lens, Kodak PCN 200 color negative film, exp. time 40 sec.

71K
Observer: Peter Gottlieb
Location: Bottrop, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 20:00 UT

Canon EOS 1000 F/N with f3.5/28mm, 30 sec on FUJI SHG 1600.

30K
Observers: Philippe Demoulin, Nicolas Winandy
Location: Durbuy, Belgium
Date: April 7, 1997 20:09 UT

Picture obtained with a 50 mm lens (f/D = 1.8). Camera on a tripod. Film : Fujicolor Super HG 1600 ASA; 35 seconds exposure.

35K
Observer: Paolo Bussola
Location: Prada Alta, Monte Baldo, Italy
Date: April 7, 1997 20:11 UT

400 mm Sigma lens at f5.6, 6 minutes exp. on Scotch Chrome 800-3200P.

63K

56K
Observer: Frank Coburger
Location: Eisenach, Thuringian Forest, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 20:30, 21:25 UT

1. 10 min 2.8/180 Pentacon SIX on LX200, Kodak Gold 400.

2. 12 min 2.8/80 Pentacon SIX on LX200, Kodak Gold 400.

40K

149K
Observer: Udo Zlender
Location: Bonn, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 20:35 UT

Camera was Nikon F with 1:4 f=200mm Nikkor. Exp. time was 5 minutes and it must be mentioned that the comet stood next to a streetlight, and the heart of Bonn city is only one mile away. The Film I used, Kodak VR 100 is not known to be a special astroemulsion and the processing was done in a normal super market.

49K
Observers: Konrad Horn, Gerhard Neumann
Location: Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 20:59-21:07 UT

Image taken with a 177/300 Schmidtcamera on TP2415 hyp.

18K
Observers: Andrea Romano, Fulvio Romano
Location: Cuneo Observatory, Italy
Date: April 7, 1997 21:00 UT

f/ 2.5 - 28 mm. - 1600 ISO - exp. 1 m.

19K
Observer: Bernd Hofmann
Location: Jena, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 21:00

Photographic lens 1.8/50 (Fujicrome 100, 8 seconds).

35K
Observer: Michael Mager
Location: Cologne, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 21:05-21:15 UT

Film: Fuji G-400. Lens: 500mm/f3.5 Flat-Field-Camera.

58K
Observer: Siegfried Anton
Location: Oberhausen, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 21:20 UT

This image is taken with a Nikkor AF 1:1.8 85mm on Ilford Delta 400 pushed to 1600 ISO. The exposure time was about 35 seconds. The trace in the image was caused by a passing airplane.

44K

25K

34K
Observer: Fred Wehner
Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997 21:25 UT

he first image is taken with a Pentax 1:1.4 50mm on Kodak Tri-X-Pan with 25 sec exposure time .
The 2nd image is taken with a Pentax 1:1.4 50mm on Kodak Tri-X-Pan with 25 sec exposure time.
The 3rd images is taken with a Pentax 1:2.5 200mm on Kodak Tri-X-Pan and 15 sec exp. time.

37K

Observer: Dr. Malte Scholz
Location: Jena/Thuringia, Germany
Date: April 7, 1997, 21:30 UT

50 mm F1.4, 20 s exposure time on Fujicolor Super G 4

57K
Observer: Marko Moilanen
Location: Finland
Date: April 7, 1997 22:00 UT

Image manually guided with camera mounted piggy-pack on small telescope. This is a 23 min exposure with 80-210 zoom lens on 180mm f5.6

34K
Observer: Joao Porto
Location: Azores Islands
Date: April 7, 1997 23:00 UT

ETX 90mm f/13.8, 2500ms CWIP-S CCD.

33K
Observers: Nicolas Winandy, Philippe Demoulin
Location: Durbuy, Belgium
Date: April 7, 1997 23:24 UT

Lens: 50 mm at f/1.8. Exposure time 2 minutes (manual tracking with a home-made "barn-door" tracker). Film Fujicolor SG1600.

25K
Observer: Daniel Fischer
Location: Koenigswinter, Germany
Date: April 8, 1997 UT

50 mm / 1.8 on Fujichrome Sensia 400.

19K
Observer: Uwe Heine
Location: Burlington, North Carolina
Date: April 8, 1997

22K

59K
Observers: Guangjie Wu, Kaifan Ji
Location: Yunnan Observatory, China
Date: April 8, 1997

1. Canon camera but a 35-70 mm zoom lens mounted.

2. Taking with the 22 cm telescope. Kodak 400 Black & White Film was used. Blue is a false background color. The plasma tail was divided into over ten streamers, each of which corresponds to a period of enhanced activity.

116K
Observer: Bob Yen
Location: Borrego Desert, California
Date: April 8, 1997

Images of Comet Hyakutake and Comet Hale-Bopp taken on April 8, one year apart.

64K

78K

67K

89K
Observer: Bob Yen
Location: Borrego Desert, California
Date: April 8, 1997

75K
Observer: Bob Yen
Location: Borrego Desert, California
Date: April 8, 1997

11K

11K

10K
Observer: Rett Alonzi
Location: Lansing, Kansas
Date: April 8, 1997

Kodak 1000 Gold Film, 50 mm f2. 17, 15 and 20 second exposures.

11K
Observer: Rett Alonzi
Location: Lansing, Kansas
Date: April 8, 1997

50 mm lens, at f2, on Kodak 1000 film with a 15 second exposure.

36K
Observer: Joe Dawson
Location: Sante Fe, New Mexico
Date: April 8, 1997

Image taken with Fuji 800. The image is a 1-minute exposure using a 200mm Zuiko lens at f/4.0.

38K
Observer: Roger Malcolm
Location: Kewanee, Illinois
Date: April 8, 1997

70 mm lens at f/3.5 on a 35 mm camera guided by a telescope. This was a 20 minute exposure using 400 speed color film.

34K

23K
Observer: William Boyer
Location: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Date: April 8, 1997

First image taken using a Minolta 8000i, 200mm lens set at f/2.8 for 25 sec. Film is Fuji Super G 800. Second image was shot with a 50 mm lens using same film and an f/1.2 for 30 sec. Flash used to enhance tree line.

30K

42K
Observers: Silvia Casini, Roberta Garosi, Ale Marchini, Luca Ravenni, Valeria Viti
Location: Monteluco (Siena), Italy
Date: April 8, 1997

Slides taken with a Konika camera using a Kodak 1600 iso.
1. F210 f5.6 Exp.4'
2. F50 f2.8 Exp.3' (ghosts "light-painted" with a common torch for about 10'' during the exposition)

34K
Observer: Francis Michel
Location: Redu, Belgium
Date: April 8, 1997

EOS Canon 28mm 2.8 30sec exposure on Kodak Tmax 3200 ASA.

14K
Observers: Iannarilli Gianluca, Paniccia Benito
Location: Veroli, Italy
Date: April 8, 1997

200 mm lens f/4 exp. 30 sec -Polaroid 200.

17K
Observer: Mark Toups
Location: Beaumont Library, Texas
Date: April 8, 1997

Photo taken with Hasselblad 180mm lens @f4.0 and 3200 hypered Konica film, 20 seconds.

34K
Observer: Mauri Rosenthal
Location: Yonkers, ???
Date: April 8, 1997

Kodak Gold 400; Canon EOS 50mm lens; f1.8, 15 seconds.

8K

3K
Observers: Alberto Quijano Vodniza, Jose Alonso
Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Date: April 8, 1997 00:00:05 UT

The first image was taken with a ST-6 CCD camera through a 5 inch, F10 reflector. 1.0 sec exposure. The field of view is 23.1 X 17.4 arc min.

The second images is in false color and color was processed with MIRA software.

34K

25K
Observer: Frank Coburger
Location: Eisenach, Thuringian Forest, Germany
Date: April 8, 1997 00:45, 02:48 UT

1. 1 min 2.8/180 Pentacon SIX on LX200, Kodak Gold 400.

2. 45 sec 2.8/80 Pentacon SIX view to LX200 and my OPEL Vectra and I used a Metz C-45 Flashlight.

10K
Observer: Bill Deane
Location: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Date: April 8, 1997 01:00 UT

Nikon F3, 50mm f/1.4 @ f/2.0 for 20 seconds with Kodak Ektachrome film rated at 3200 asa.

10K

14K
Observer: Scott Routt
Location: Winchester, Virginia
Date: April 8, 1997 01:00 UT

Ricoh 35mm, Fuji 400G plus film, at f/2.82 for 25 seconds.

67K
Observer: Dwight Werren
Location: Georgetown, Ohio
Date: April 8, 1997 01:00-02:00 UT

Camera/Lens: Ricoh KR5, 200 mm. Film/Exposure: Kodak Royal Gold 1000, 4-5 minutes, guided with barn door tracker mount.

32K

26K
Observer: Todd Burns
Location: Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania
Date: April 8, 1997 01:10, 00:20 UT

1. This unguided image was taken through a 35 mm lens at f/3.5 on Ektapress 1600 film with an exposure time of @45 seconds.

2. This guided image was taken through a 400mm lens at f/4 on Ektapress 1600 film with an exposure time of 1 minute. North is to the right. Image was scanned in b/w.

12K

21K
Observer: Ian Griffin
Location: Astronaut Memorial Planetarium & Observatory, Cocoa, Florida
Date: April 8, 1997 01:18 UT

First image is a 60 second image of Hale Bopp obtained using a red filter and a 12 inch Maksutov telescope has been dark subtracted and flat fielded,and a false colour pallate applied

Second image is 25 x 20 second exposures of Hale Bopp, taken through a blue filter have been combined and processed by subtracting a 5 by 5 pixel masked version from 105% of the original image.

15K
Observer: John Pane
Location: Economy, Pennsylvania
Date: April 8, 1997 01:20 UT

35mm SLR camera on a fixed tripod, 50mm lens at f/2.0, Kodak PJM-640 film, composite of two 15 second exposures. M34 visible to right of the comet head, at the lower edge of the dust tail.

52K
Observer: Tim Printy
Location: Chiefland, Florida
Date: April 8, 1997 01:30 UT

8 minute exp using a 200mm F2.8 lens and Kodak PJM film.

19K

8K

9K
Observer: William Griffiths
Location: Marietta, Ohio
Date: April 8, 1997 01:30-02:30 UT

Camon A2E with 1000 speed film.

51K
Observer: Geoff Chester
Location: Haymarket, Virginia
Date: April 8, 1997 01:45 UT

This image was made with a 105mm f2/5 Nikkor lens. 5-minute exposure on Kodak PPF-400 Professional color negative film. The camera was piggybacked on a telescope. Note M34 to the right of the coma, along the lower edge of the dust tail.

44K
Observer: Robert Pernett
Location: Shoal Creek, Georgia
Date: April 8, 1997 01:45 UT

Image taken using a Canon EOS. PJM-640 film exposed for 5 minutes with a 75mm f4.0 tracked on the comet. Image cropped for effect.

41K
Observer: Tom Dietz
Location: Haymarket, Virginia
Date: April 8, 1997 02:00 UT

50mm f/2 lens on a home-made "barn door" camera drive, hand-guided over a 5-minute exposure on Kodak PPF-400 Professional color negative film.

10K

8K
Observer: Jim Wahler
Location: Middletown, Virginia
Date: April 8, 1997 02:15, 02:30 UT

All images taken with aOlympus OM2, on Kodak Royal Gold 1000, w/fixed camera mount.

1. Vivitar 90mm, F4.5, aprox 80 seconds. Note the kink in the tail. Believe this due to VERY thin cirrus in the way!

2. Vivitar 230mm, F4.5, aprox 60 seconds.

18K

18K
Observer: Michael Tighe
Location: Arlington, Massachusetts
Date: April 8, 1997 02:30 UT

Images taken using ASA 400 film, a 15 second exposure (approx) and a 50mm lens.

27K

8K
Observer: Roy Parish
Location: Bellevue, Louisiana
Date: April 8, 1997 02:42, 01:46 UT

1. Hale-Bopp in Perseus: 10 minute exposure, Kodak PPF film, 50-mm Nikkor-AI lens at f2, no filter.

2. Hale-Bopp nucleus: 8 second exposure, Kodak Technical Pan film developed 8 minutes at 20C in Kodak HC-110 (Dilution B), 28-cm Celestron S-C telescope at f10, no filter.

43K
Observer: David Hanon
Location: Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
Date: April 8, 1997 01:55 UT

The image is a 1 minute exposure on Kodak ppf 400 film with a 300mm f/2.8 lens.

21K

27K

21K

28K
Observer: Garry Holmes
Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Date: April 8, 1997 02:30-03:00 UT

1. 50mm f/2.8, 6 minutes, Fuji 800 (unhypered seemed to work as well as hypered).
2. 200mm f/4.5, 10 minutes, Fuji 800
3. 130mm aperture f/1.65 Celestron Schmidt, Kodak PPF 400

The first shows almost all of Perseus up to the double cluster; the narrow-angle images separate M34 from the dust tail nicely.

4. Schmidt, 3 minutes on hypered 2415 film.

51K
Observer: Brian Rau
Location: Paint Creek Lake, Ohio
Date: April 8, 1997 02:45 UT

Fuji Provia 1600 with a 2-stop push (ISO 1600). 45 seconds at f/2 using a Pentax ME Super on a fixed tripod with Pentax 50mm f/1.4 lens.

30K
Observer: Geoff Simon
Location: Pierre, South Dakota
Date: April 8, 1997 03:15 UT

15-second exposure at f 2.8 on Kodak Royal Gold 1000 film.

74K

47K
Observer: Dan Norris
Location: Moab, Utah
Date: April 8, 1997 04:00 UT

1. Olympus OM4T, 50mm at f1.4 for 45 seconds on Fuji Sensia 400. Push processed to 800. Fill light on rock formations was from a very bright 6-volt flashlight.

2. Olympus OM4T, 90mm at f2.0 for 35 seconds. Same film and processing. Same fill light.

18K
Observer: Antonia Astudillo
Location: Pearson College Observatory, Victoria, British-Columbia, Canada
Date: April 8, 1997 05:50 UT

Canon camera ((Vivitar 27mm lense) containing a 800 ASA Fuji film. The camera was put on a tripod and the exposure time was 75 seconds.

160K

174K

170K
Observer: Choon Kiat Lim
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Date: April 8, 1997 11:45-12:30 UT

Ricoh camera with 50mm F1.4 lense. The film I used in Kodak 400ASA with exposure of 30sec. The camera was mounted to a tripod and left unguided.

11K

20K

27K

74K
Observer: Gianluca Masi
Location: Ceccano, Italy
Date: April 8, 1997 18:40-19:13 UT

Vixen SP R-150S, 15 cm f/5 reflector telescope; CCD SBIG ST-7.

41K
Observer: Andreas Frank
Location: Feldstetten, Germany
Date: April 8, 1997 19:00 UT

Yashica FX-7, 50mm lens, f/2.0, 30 sec. on Kodak Ektachrome 400.

27K
Observer: Anna Winiarska
Location: Katowice-Janow, Poland
Date: April 8, 1997 19:10 UT

Zenit TTL, f=58/2, exposition 50s, film: Konica 100.

9K

5K
Observers: Jean Lecacheux, Francois Colas
Location: Pic du Midi Observatory, France
Date: April 8, 1997 19:18 UT

We processed the sum of 30 individual images taken with a red broad-band filter (670-820 nm ). The first image is the result of a radial gradient, for the second we subtracted a radial profile to reduce the dynamic range between the inner and outer coma. The images were taken with the 105 cm telescope.

27K

19K
Observers: Andjelko Glivar, Knezic Mirko
Location: Donja Stubica, Croatia
Date: April 8, 1997 19:50, 20:03 UT

First image: piggyback on C8 with Tele 200mm/3,5, 5 min exp. Left from HB is Algol and right is Open cluster M34 All images are taken on Fujicolor SGP 800

114K
Observers: Herman Mikuz, B. Kambic
Location: Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia
Date: April 8, 1997 19:56-20:06 UT

Color image of comet Hale-Bopp, taken on 1997 April 8 (19h56-20h06UT) with 19-cm, f/4 Flat-field S-C camera and Kodak Ektacolor ProGold 1000 film (6x7 format).

31K

35K

47K
Observer: Fred Stauffer
Location: Wyher Castle near Ettiswil, Switzerland
Date: April 8, 1997 20:00-21:00 UT

Camera: Olympus OM-2n. 28mm/f=3.5 lens. Kodak Ektar 1000. Exposure time 6-40 sec. The images were scanned by Remo Nyfeler from 20x30cm paper prints. Second image with reflex from the comet in the water of the moat.

17K

13K
Observer: Rainer Timm
Location: Dietramszell & Aumuehle, Germany
Date: April 8, 1997 20:00, 21:15 UT

1. Nikon EM , Nikkor 50mm f1,4 25 sec, Kodak Elite 2, 400

2. Nikon F 50, Nikkor 50mm f1,4 30 sec. Kodak Pro Gold 400

3K

3K

9K
Observer: Jan Vesely
Location: Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Date: April 8, 1997 20:03-20:17 UT

First image was taken by CCD camera PixCel 255 (ST-5) through 20 cm refractor f/17.5. 10 sec exposure. Field of view is approximately 3.2 x 2.5 arcmin.

Second image was taken by photographic lens 2.8/80 and CCD camera PixCel 255 (ST-5). Exposure lasted 60 seconds. Field of view is about 2x1.5 degrees. The image was unprocessed.

Third image is the same exposure as the second one, but was log-scaled.

27K
Observers: Konrad Horn, Gerhard Neumann
Location: Gornergrat Mountain, Switzerland
Date: April 8, 1997 20:30-22:30 UT

4 X 7min exposure on Kodak Pro Gold with a 50mm lens.

19K
Observer: Marco Paolo Pavese
Location: Genoa, Italy
Date: April 8, 1997 20:45 PM

FUJI 800 ASA
camera NIKON F4
lens Nikon AFD 500mm
F.5.6
TIME 5 sec.

50K

95K
Observer: Udo Zlender
Location: Bonn, Germany
Date: April 8, 1997 20:50 UT

Camera: Nikon F with 1:4 f=200mm Nikkor. Exp. time was 5 minutes. Film Kodak VR 100. The second image is false color processed and slightly zoomed.

53K
Observers: Konrad Horn, Gerhard Neumann
Location: Germany
Date: April 8, 1997 20:53-21:02 UT

Image taken with a 177/300 Schmidtcamera on TP2415 hyp.

38K

40K
Observer: Fred Wehner
Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: April 8, 1997 21:05 UT

The first image is taken with a Pentax 1:1.4 50mm on Kodak Tri-X-Pan with 25 sec exposure time.
The 2nd images is taken with a Pentax 1:2.5 200mm on Kodak Tri-X-Pan and 15 sec exp. time.

31K
Observer: Joao Porto
Location: Azores Islands
Date: April 8, 1997 22:30 UT

False color image - PSP software. ETX 90mm f13.8, Fuji SG800+, 120 seconds.