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This is the first natural celestial object which I actually could see moving among the stars in my telescope. It was only 15 millions km from the earth on March 25th 1996.
It moved so fast that I only could use a small camera for photographing. The camera was mounted on top of my "big" Meade 10-Inch LX3 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope,
which I used for guiding on the comet's head.
At perigeum (closest to earth) I saw a tail at least 15° long.
This comet was discovered by Yuji Hyakutake who lives in Kagoshima in the southern part of Japan. On the morning of December 26th 1995 he found the faint glow in the intersection of Virgo, Libra and Hydra with his impressive 25X150 binoculars. The magnitude was 10.5 with a diameter of 3.5'.
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Time: 00.55UT 1996-03-25 Exp.time and film: 13 min. Konica Super XG-100
Camera on tracking-telescope: Fujica 200mm f/4.5 telephoto lens
Time: 21.58UT 1996-03-26 Exp.time and film: 11 min. Kodak Gold 100
Camera on tracking-telescope: Fujica 200mm f/4.5 telephoto lens
Time: 20.28UT 1996-03-28 Exp.time and film: 21 min. Kodak Gold 100
Camera on tracking-telescope: Fujica 400mm f/9 telephoto lens
Time: 20.02UT 1996-03-30 Exp.time and film: 17 min. Kodak Gold 100
Camera on tracking-telescope: Fujica 400mm f/9 telephoto lens
NASA Info
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Software used: MSB Astroart 2.0,7.0 ,Paint
And the next year comet Hale-Bopp came
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium). Oslo Norway.
Photographer's website:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odd_trondal/
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