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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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27.March 1996 Universal time : 00.30
Camera 55 mm f/1.8, Doggy-style on a Meade 2120 LX3 Schmidt Cassegrain 10" F/10
Exposure time and film: 12 min. on Kodak Gold 100
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium). Oslo Norway.
NASA Info
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Previous images :
Ricky Johnson on March 28, 2000 @ Villa Rica, Ga
Doug Zubenel on March 26, 1996 @ Just north of Carrollton (Carroll County), Missouri
Frank Sanzone on December 27, 2020 @ Long Island NY
Odd Trondal on December 8, 2020 @ Oslo
Photographer's website:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odd_trondal/
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