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.