Comet Hale-Bopp

Date: 1997 Mar 29 - 20:00 UT
Location: Les Deux Alpes, France (1800 m)
Camera: Nikon FG camera with 300 mm F/4 telelens, unguided
Image: Kodak TMAX 3200 film, total exposure 6 min, digitized 1200 dpi - 8 bit.
Comments: 3 digitized images were artificially flatfielded, added and log scaled to obtain the final image.
the original 1000 x 800 total image was reduced in size to 500 x 400 to fit on this page.