Wide Field of Comet Hale-Bopp

April 2, 1997 at 1:10 UT

This is Comet Hale-Bopp as it appeared after stacking three 20 second exposure images starting at 8:10pm localtime on April 1st. The image was taken with a Meade Pictor 416 attached to a 28mm F/3.5 lens stopped to F/5.6. The image was corrected with a dark frame and logarithmically stretched.