Enlarge (112kB)This picture was taken outside the 40 inch Nickel telescope at Lick Observatory on March 1, 1997.
Coordinates of comet Hale-Bopp
at 1 March, 1997, 0h UT
RA = 21 21 dec = +33 17 (J2000)
Distance: 1.067 A.U. = 159 million km
Hale-Bopp ephemeris
Camera: Rolleiflex
Film: Ilford HP5
400 speed, pushed to 1600(?)
Exp: 20 seconds
Dev: Kodak D76
Paper: Ilford Multigrade IV RC
Photographer: Douglas Finkbeiner
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