Posted on 11/24/2013 8:36:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Comet Hale-Bopp, the Great Comet of 1997, was quite a sight. In the above photograph taken on 1997 April 6, Comet Hale-Bopp was imaged from the Indian Cove Campground in the Joshua Tree National Park in California, USA. A flashlight was used to momentarily illuminate foreground rocks in this six minute exposure. An impressive blue ion tail was visible above a sunlight-reflecting white dust tail. Comet Hale-Bopp remained visible to the unaided eye for over a year before returning to the outer Solar System and fading. As Comet ISON approaches the Sun this week, sky enthusiasts around the Earth are waiting to see if its tails will become even more spectacular than those displayed by Comet Hale-Bopp.
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[Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics, TWAN)]
The rocks look like fingers giving the copacetic sign.
remember Heaven’s Gate?
You bet. Art Bell and the Blue Kachina.
That pic makes me nostalgic... driving down the freeway and seeing this comet in the western sky. Those were the days of Art Bell and working nights. LOL.
United Artists, R.I.P.
"Marshall...once you came on board the spaceship, was there anything that surprised you?"
"There was one thing, that whole castration thing, turned out we were way off on that one."
Saw hale-bopp in the night sky of west Texas. Wow..
I remember going out several nights in a row, standing in the middle of a Boston Street to see that! :-)
Now that was a great comet!
Not in the dead of Winter, dim, and only visible for 15 minutes before dawn at like 3 degrees above the horizon. Or something only visible from Australia.
That Comet is one of the most amazing/beautiful things I’ve EVER seen. I wish we could see another one like it during my lifetime!
I’d wondered what made the tail spread out like that...
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