April 3, 1997 at 00:22 UT
This is Comet Hale-Bopp with a 20 second exposure image at 7:22pm localtime on April 2nd. 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.
There were clouds starting to streak into the upper left of the picture.