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 from near his home in Dayton, Ohio.
March 31, 1997. Another 1 second photo by Mario. The contrast and brightrness 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.
March 11, 1997 A morning photograph of Hale-Bopp with a 50mm lens by Mario.
March 31, 1997 An evening photograph with a 50 mm.
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.
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, Ohio. Mark and Andy drove there from Cleveland to escape persistant cloudy Northeast Ohio skies. The picture has been slightly sharpened and brightened in order to bring out more detail in the tail. The original photo does not show as many stars.
Same place, camera and exposure time as the prior picture.
A color photo of Mark and the comet. Taken with a 50 mm lens at Salt Fork State Park
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.
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.
And now for the real good stuff. Dan and Steve drove to Big South Fork National River and Recreation area during the week of March 24. The following 3 pictures were taken by Steve on March 26 during the early evening hours. Stay tuned, and in a few days we'll post excellent pictures from Mark Pogany. Andy, Denny and Mark flew to New Mexico the same week.
135 mm f2.8 at 2 minutes. Fujicolor 800 film. Go back to the March 9 photo above and notice the difference in the comets size.
52 mm f2.8 at 3 minutes. Fujicolor 800 film..
28 mm f2.8 at 2 minutes. Fujicolor 800 film..
Taken the next evening, March 27 with a 135 mm f2.8 at 3 minutes. Fujicolor 800 film.
Taken by Steve on April 11 at South Chagrin Metropark with a 50 mm f1.8 lens. The moon appears at the upper left. Fujicolor 800 film.
And now for some better stuff. . Here are 3 of Mark's photos from New Mexico. The first one looks much better in person.
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.
A 30 sercond 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.
Former CVAS member Matt Heino moved to Las Cruces a few years ago. He hosted our CVAS members 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.
Gary Woznicki, a new member with CVAS 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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