Pictures of Comet Hale-Bopp by Widener faculty and staff

Pictures by Marty Schultz:

These were taken from the roof of Kirkbride hall using an Sbig ST6 ccd camera and a Baush&Lomb C8 telescope.


Mosaic of different background and range settings for a 1.5 second exposure with a blue filter.
Image taken 04/02/97 at 20:24:19 EST.


This is a combination of the images in the mosaic above.

These were taken using a Cannon Rebel XS with 35-80mm and 75-300mm lenses. The camera was set for manual aperture and automatic exposure using Fuji 1600 speed film. F stop settings used were 4.0 to 5.6. All have been processed with Paint Shop Pro.

Click on each image for the full size color image.


 Taken on the evening of March 15.


 Taken on the evening of March 15.


Taken on the morning of March 16.
(the glow on the horizon is not the sun rising, it's Philadelphia 15 miles to the east.)


Taken on the morning of March 16.

The following were taken with an Olympus OM-1, with a 50mm lens or a 60mm f6 refractor, and Fuji 800 speed film.


 Taken on the evening of April 1.


Taken on the evening of April 1.


To compare size here is the moon taken on March 15 with the same refractor.

Pictures by Larry Panek:

Click on each image for the full size, full color image.


 Taken on the evening of March 22.


 Taken on the evening of March 24.


 Taken on the evening of March 24.


 Taken on April 2 from dark skies in northeastern PA.

Pictures by Harry Augensen :

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 Taken on the evening of April 1.


 Taken on the evening of April 4.

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