Object: comet Hale-Bopp
Date: 1997 Mar 27
Location: MIT campus
Observer(s): Steve Slivan
Optics: 400 mm, f/5 refractor with V filter
Detector: Lynxx MC CCD camera
Same image shown with two different
brightness/contrast settings.
Field of large image is about 20 arcmin square;
smaller image shows a false-color view of only the head region.
Original image is sum of 25 2-sec. exposures.