Thirty Years Ago Yesterday . . .
Taken by Doug C Zubenel on April 18, 1996 @
Just west of Mound City, Linn County, Kansas.
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. . . Great Comet Hyakutake (1996 B2) reached perihelion. Not long before, I made two exposures of the comet, which many years later, Sean Walker at Sky & Telescope was kind enough to stack for me. I did a bit of re-editing today to obtain this result. The image is made of two, stacked Fujicolor Super G 800 plus film frames, both of which are ~ 10-minute exposures @ f/4 with a NIKKOR 135 mm lens on a Nikon FE2 body. Each exposure was hand-guided with a Tasco equatorial refractor.
The cloud at lower right is actually the leading edge of a small dust storm that covered the comet shortly after I ended the second exposure on this wonderful night out on the Kansas prairie.
Photographer's website:
https://twanight.org
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