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Observers: H. Fukushima, N. Yamamoto
Location: National Astronomy Observatory, Japan
Date: July - December 1996

Images taken using the NAOJ 50cm reflector with a CCD camera.

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Observer: John Marino
Location: Beaver Meadow Observatory, New York
Date: August 3, 1996

Image taken with a cookbook ccd camera on a 12.5 inch reflector.

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Observer: David Hanon
Location: Ringgold, Georgia
Date: August 4, 1996

Image taken with a ST8 7" F/6.

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Observer: Nick James
Location: Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Date: August 4, 1996 21:22

6x30 seconds, radial enhanced.

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Observer: Pedro Re
Location: Portugal
Date: August - September 1996

All images were obtained from central Portugal with a C14 and HISIS22 CCD Camera.

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Observer: Stefano Covino
Location: European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile
Date: August 12, 1996

Image taken the 91-cm Dutch telescope on August 12, 1996. The exposure was 15 seconds through a V-filtre and the sky conditions were mediocre. The field measures about 3.8 arcmin square.

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Observer: ???
Location: Kumanmoto Civil Astronomical Observatory, Japan
Date: August 12, 1996

Image taken with a 41cm F6L.

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Observer: David Renneke
Location: Milan, Illinois
Date: August 13, 1996 04:16, 05:16 UT

First picture was taken using a Meade 8" telescope and an SBIG ST-6 CCD camera. This was a 10 second exposure. The size of the photo is 28' x 18'. The comet was a distance of 2.75 AU from Earth. The streak shown just above the comet is a meteor from the Perseid meteor shower! The second picture was taken at 11:16 pm - exactly one hour after the above picture was taken. It is framed with the same star field to make the comet movement more evident. The brightest star in this picture has a magnitude of only 13.1 based on information from the Hubble Guide Star Catalog CD.

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Copyright 1996 David Johnson
Observer(s): David Johnson
Location: Newport, United Kingdom
Date: August 14, 1996 22:38 UT

Exposure 4 minutes, Starlight Express colour ccd camera. 12.5 inch f5.3 Newtonian telescope. Location Newport, UK.

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Observers: H. Fukushima, N. Yamamoto
Location: National Astronomy Observatory, Japan
Date: April - November 1996

Images taken using the NAOJ 50cm reflector with a CCD camera.

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Observer: ???
Location: Kumanmoto Civil Astronomical Observatory, Japan
Date: August 16, 1996

41cm F6L, 120 second exposure.

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Observer: Kazuyoshi Namura
Location: Reizan-cho, Fukushima City, Japan
Date: August 16, 1996 14:30 UT

date of obs:  Aug 16 1996 14:30 UT 15min exp.
camera:       Canon F1, Canon 600mm F4.5(4.5)lens
film:         Fujicolor Super G800 ACE
equatorial:   GOTO MARK-X

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Observer: Luca Reduzzi
Location: European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile
Date: August 17, 1996

Images taken with the ESO-Dutch Telescope (0.91m), field is 3.5 x 3.5 arcmin, CCD was a Tektronix 512x512, exposure 4 minutes, R filter.

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Observer: Alfredo Garcia
Location: Los Padres National Forest, California
Date: August 17, 1996

Images taken using a Meade Pictor 416 prime focus to a Meade 10" f/6.3 LX 200 and shot 8 and 10 sec exposures. I then imaged enhanced the raw images to bring out details. I was surprised to see the comet have such a wide "fantail" as can be seen on my ehnhanced images. Also I noted some material coming off the comet as can be seen in the lower right hand corner of the enhanced images.

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Observer: David Hanon
Location: Ringgold, Georgia
Date: August 18, 1996

Image taken with a ST8 7" F/6.

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Observers: Nick Thomas, Heike Rauer, Hermann Boehnhardt
Location: European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile
Date: August 18, 1996 04:20 UT

CCD images taken with the DFOSC multi-mode instrument on the Danish 1.54 m telescope at La Silla. The frame was taken at 04:20 UT using with an R filter and the integration time was 20 s. Bias subtraction and flat-fielding was performed and the frame was binned (4 x 4) to reduce the frame size to 512 x 512 pixels while still showing the entire CCD area. Another CCD image shows a smaller area of the first, but is unbinned and has otherwise received identical processing.

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Observer: David Hanon
Location: Ringgold, Georgia
Date: August 19, 1996

Image taken with a ST8 7" F/6.

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Observers: Milos Tichy, Z. Moravec
Location: Klet Observatory, Czech Republic
Date: August 19, 1996 19:44 UT

Image taken with 0.57-m f/5.2 reflector + CCD camera SBIG ST-8 and is 60 seconds exposure. The field of view is 16 to 10 arcminutes with north to the top and west to the right.

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Observers: Milos Tichy, Z. Moravec
Location: Klet Observatory, Czech Republic
Date: August 19, 1996 19:44 UT

The false-color image was taken with 0.57-m f/5.2 reflector + CCD camera SBIG ST-8. and is 60 seconds exposure. The field of view is 16 to 10 arcminutes with north to the top and west to the right.

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Observer: Andjelko Glivar
Location: Donja Stubica, Croatia
Date: August 20, 1996

Image taken on Fujicolor super G+ 800 and 15.min.exp.

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Observer: Andjelko Glivar
Location: Donja Stubica, Croatia
Date: August 21, 1996

Fujicolor super G+, 18 min.exp with C8.

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Observers: Iwan Williams, Martin Cartwright, Alan Fitzsimmons
Location: La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
Date: August 27, 1996

This R-band image of Hale Bopp was obtained using the 1-m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma. The original image has had most of the surrounding dust coma subtracted to bring out spatial structure. Six jets can be seen eminating from the nucleus, showing that the comet remains highly active. This image spans 84 arcseconds, or roughly 170,000 km at the comet.

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Observer: ???
Location: Kumanmoto Civil Astronomical Observatory, Japan
Date: August 29, 1996

41cm F6L.

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