Comet Observation Home Page

This image of C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) was taken by Chander Bhushan Devgun (New Delhi, India) using 28 mm f/2.8 lens and 400 ASA film. The exposure was 1 min.

The Hubble Space Telescope images Comet Hale-Bopp on August 27,1997. Click on this image to go to Hal Weaver's posting of images and explanation. Dr. Weaver is the HST Principal Investigator for the Hale-Bopp observations.

Hale-Bopp will become visible once again for Northern Hemisphere observers south of about +45 degrees for a month or so. You will need an excellent southeast horizon to see the comet, which is likely to be magnitude 5 or 6. This chart, which was provided by Dale Ireland, shows where the Comet Hale-Bopp is in the sky at one hour before local sunrise for observers at +35 degrees latitude. (Click on image for larger view.)

Click here to see previous images

This page has lots of images... a selection of recent images can be found here (revised 9/22/97)...there are hundreds images in the complete archive. Also, check out other home pages with recent images.

Last Updated: 26 September 1997

In this home page:

Comets Currently Visible (8/11/97)
The Great Comet of 1997...
Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer (9/9/97)
Recent News and Observations (9/26/97)
Comet Light Curves (5/9/97)
Ephemerides for Current Visually Observable Comets (8/11/97)
Comet Definitions
Other Sources of Comet Information (2/2/96)

Comet Images (7/25/97)
Other Pages Featuring Comet Images
The People Who Discover Comets

Other Places

NASA Home Page
JPL Home Page

Awards

The biggest reward for doing this home page is the positive feedback that I get and the knowledge that users find this page a useful service.

(Of course, I think it should have received four stars, but I am a bit biased.)

Statistics

Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. These accesses create more than 15,000 entries per day in the access log. This amounts to an increase in the size of the access log of 1.5 Mbytes per day! However, the peak access rate during the C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) apparition was >>30,000 users. The peak usage was more than 550,000 hits per day.

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Charles S. Morris / csm@encke.jpl.nasa.gov