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Credit & Copyright: W. Pacholka
Explanation:
Good cameras were able to obtain impressive photographs of
Comet Hale-Bopp
when at its brightest earlier this year. In the
above
photograph taken April 5th, Comet Hale-Bopp was imaged from the
Indian Cove Campground in the
Joshua Tree National Forest in California,
USA.
A flashlight was used to momentarily illuminate foreground rocks in this 30 second
exposure. Comet Hale-Bopp is still visible to the unaided eye in
Earth's Southern Hemisphere,
with observers there reporting it to be about 4th
magnitude. The comet is now passing nearly in front of the star
Sirius, and shows only a slight
dust tail.
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