Photography by Dave Schmahl

 

Comet Hyakutake


Date: Sat March 30, 1996
Time: 9:30PM 
Location: a View Point about 5 miles South of Julian, about 50 miles East of San Diego, looking NW.
Equipment: 50mm lens at f2.8 ,1000 Kodak Gold, 20sec exposure, unguided.

Hyakutake had moved on passed Polaris and was Southeast of Perseus in this image.  It seemed to hover in the sky over this little community in Eastern San Diego county.