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Comet Hale-Bopp - March 26, 1997.
A 1 second photo by Mario Tonklii
on Kodak 1000 film. Taken with a 13.1 inch reflector F4.5
using eyepiece project with a 27mm eyepiece. Mario took
this photo from his home near Dayton, Ohio.
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Hale-Bopp - March 31,
1997. Another 1 second photo by Mario. The contrast and brightness
were slightly adjusted to bring out more
detail in the nucleus. Notice the change in the ring
structure and the fainter ring in the March 31 photo.
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Hale-Bopp. A March
11, 1997 morning photo using a normal 50mm lens by Mario.
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Hale-Bopp - March 31. An evening photograph taken by Mario.
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Hale-Bopp. February 20, 1997 4:42 A.M. Eastern
Standard Time. Taken by Mark Pogany
with a Nikkormat FT2 105 mm lens at f/2.3. 3 minute exposure
on hypered Tech Pan film. Mark took this picture from
his backyard in Willoughby Hills, Ohio.
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Hale-Bopp - A color photo of Mark and the comet. Taken with
a 50 mm lens at Salt Fork State Park located in southeast
Ohio.
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Hale-Bopp.
Morning of March 9, 1997. Taken by Mark Pogany with a
Mamiya RB67 127 mm lens at f/3.8. 6 minute exposure on
hypered Tech
Pan film. Mark took this picture from Salt Fork State
Park. Mark and Andy drove there from Cleveland to escape
persistent cloudy Northeast Ohio skies. The picture was
slightly sharpened and brightened in order to bring out
more detail in the tail. The original photo does not show
as many stars.
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Hale-Bopp - Same place,
camera and exposure time as the prior picture.
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Hale-Bopp. Morning
of March 9. Taken by Steve Fishman
with an Olympus OM-1 135 mm lens at f/2.8 and Fujicolor
800 film. 5 minute exposure Taken at Russell Park in Geauga
County. The photo has been slightly sharpened and brightened
to bring out details in the blue ion tail.
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Hale-Bopp. Morning
of March 10. Taken by Steve Fishman
with an Olympus OM-1 135 mm lens at f/2.8 and Fujicolor
800 film. 3 minute exposure. Taken at his home in the light
polluted skies in Orange Village.
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Hale-Bopp. During the
week of March 24. Dan Rothstein
and Steve drove to the Big South Fork National
River and Recreation area in Tennessee. This picture
and the following 2 were taken by Steve on March 26 during
the early evening hours.
135 mm f2.8 at 2 minutes. Fujicolor 800 film. Compare
to the March 9 photo at the upper right.
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Hale-Bopp. 52 mm f2.8
at 3 minutes. Fujicolor 800 film.
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Hale-Bopp. Mark Pogany, Andy Winzer and
Denny Jefferson flew to New Mexico to observe and photograph
Hale-Bopp. This is a 5 minute photo taken by Mark on March
29 with a Mamiya 645
camera, 80mm at f2.5. Kodak Pro 400 MC 120 format film.
They
traveled to the high desert 30 miles north of Las Cruces,
New Mexico.
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Hale-Bopp.
A 30 second photo taken by Mark
during a comet party at the
Tombaugh Observatory of New Mexico State University campus
on March 27. Also used the Mamiya 645 camera 80mm at f1/9.
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Hale-Bopp. Former CVAS member
Matt Heino moved
to Las Cruces a few years ago. He hosted our CVAS members
for several evenings. Mark
took this photo from Matt's house, just 5 miles from downtown
Las Cruces. These skies were just as dark as our Indian Hill
site, which is over 30 miles from downtown Cleveland. This
is a 40 second photo with the Mamiya 645 camera 80mm f1.9.
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Hale-Bopp.
Gary Woznicki, a former CVAS member took this photo on the
morning of March 12. He used Fuji HG1600 film on an Astrophysics
105mm F6 Traveler refractor. Time of exposure was 3 minutes
and was taken in Gates Mills,Ohio.
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Hyakutake. Talk about desperation, Mark Pogany and 3 other CVAS members
drove over 50 miles westward from the east side of Cleveland
to escape the clouds on March 23, 1996. We were rewarded
with clear skies near Sandusky. Mark took this picture
of Hyakutake rising in the east over a "cold" farmfield
near Monroeville, Ohio. It was 20 degree f with a constant
15-20 mph wind. Photo data: Hypered Tech Pan 2415 film.
35mm f/1.4 Nikor at f/2. Taken with home made barn door camera
drive. 2 minute exposure
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Hyakutake
The next morning, Sunday March
24, 1996, Mark and others
drove to LaDue Reservoir, Auburn Corners, Ohio. Picture
taken with a Bronica ETRS and 75mm f/2.8 lens. Hypered Tech
Pan 2415 film. 6 minute exposure taken with home made barn door
camera drive. 2 minute exposure
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Comet Hyakutake.
3/30/96. Taken by Mark at
Indian Hill Observatory,
Huntsburg, Ohio. 35mm f/1.4 Nikor at f/2.8. 1 minute
exposure
on Ektar 1000 film.
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Comet Hyakutake.
3/30/96. Another picture by Mark
from Indian Hill Observatory, Huntsburg, Ohio. 35mm f/1.4
Nikor at f/2.8. 1 minute exposure on Ektar 1000 film.
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Comet Hyakutake.
From Mark's north facing kitchen
window. March 27, 1996, 2:30 AM 35mm f/1.4 Nikor at f/2.0
for 5 minutes. The comet was near the pole star, so a
longer fixed camera exposure was possible without star
trails.
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Comet Hyakutake.
Also sensing poor Northeast Ohio skies, Don Himes and his wife Kim drove to White River State
Park in Indiana to photograph and observe the Comet. This
picture was taken on March 23, 1996 2:00 AM, 80mm f/2.8,
200 ASA, 15 Minutes Exposure. The bright
orange star is Arcturus.
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Comet Hyakutake.
After returning from Indiana, during the night of March
26-27,Don took this 5 minute
photograph using a 28mm lens at f/2.8. He used hypered
tech film with his camera piggy backed on the CVAS 16"
telescope.
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Comet Hyakutake.
3/16/96. 3:00 AM. 200mm f/2.8 15 minute 1000 ASA color
print film by Don.
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