Comet Hale-Bopp

NOTES
DATE:
March 15, 1997
TIME:
4:00 a.m. EST
FILM:
Kodak Ektachrome 400
EXPOSURE:
15 minutes
LOCATION:
Kalamazoo County
INSTRUMENT:
Orion ShortTube 80 mm refractor (400 mm focal length, f/5) piggybacked on 10" LX200.
PROCESSING:
Original slide scanned with Epson Perfection 3200 and processed in Adobe Photoshop 7.0.
COMMENTS:
My image of the most photographed comet of all time.  Not a bad image considering I was still cutting my teeth as an astrophotographer.