toobfreak
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No, I do not mean the actor, nor do I mean the Skipper on Gilligan's, but the astronomer the famous comet Hale-Bopp was named after, I guess the last best comet that has been easily visible for people in North America and Europe. I took many stop-motion pictures of it and its distinctive blue and red tails (one caused by the solar wind, the other from the comet's motion through space) using 15 second exposures in (what was it?) around 1996 on a tripod mounted camera using very fast film, which, using a 50mm lens was just short enough to prevent star-trailing.
Hale was a professional astronomer who discovered the comet simultaneously along side an amateur named Bopp.
en.wikipedia.org
Hale was a professional astronomer who discovered the comet simultaneously along side an amateur named Bopp.
