Photography by Dave Schmahl

 

Comet Hale-Bopp


Date:  Friday, March 28rd, 1997
Time:  8:00PM
Location:  Mount Laguna Observatory, San Diego, CA

50mm lens at f2.8, 400 Kodak Gold, 4 min exposure, piggybacked on a motor guided C80 refractor.

The blue ion tail shows its structure in this image.  Take special note of the faint image of the Great Galaxy in Andromeda in the lower part of the image.