Photography by Dave Schmahl

 

Comet Hale-Bopp


Date:  Sunday, March 23rd, 1997
Time:  7:30PM
Location:  Mount Laguna Observatory, San Diego, CA.

50mm lens at f2.8, 1000 Kodak Gold, 20 sec exposure, unguided.

The comet showed itself between the trees that surround the observatory.