Comet Hale-Bopp over landscape at Dinosaur Privincial park, Alberta, site of world's largest late Cretaceous dinosaur fossil finds. Taken in mid-April 1997 with Moon providing illumination. Taken with Plaubel Makina 6x7 camera with 80mm lens at f/2.8 and Ektachrome 400 slide film. About 30 second exposure. on fixed tripod. No tracking.
Hale-Bopp in late March 1997 during public observing session at Calgary Science Centre in downtown Calgary. Shows how comet was bright enough to see and photograph in the city. Taken with Plaubel Makina 6x7 camera on Fujichrome 400 slide film. 80mm lens at f/2.8 and about 20 second exposure. Sky turned a more pleasant cyan from ulgy green-yellow in Photoshop.
Comet Hale-Bopp in sunset twilight April 9, 1997 28mm lens at f/2.8 Fuji Super G 800 print film not tracked, about 1 minute exposure, so stars are trailed slightly. Crescent Moon is bright overexposed object in clouds
