Comet Hale-Bopp
(Spring 1997)

Minolta XD5, Objektiv 400mm (200mm / 2x-Converter),
Film: Konica 3200 ASA negative, exposure: automatic

The Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered im July 1995 from Alan Hale ins Cloudcroft, New Mexico, and Thomas Bopp in Stanfield, Arizona independently from eachother to eachother in the global-constellation M70 near the constellation Sagittarius und was called C/1995 O1. In Middle-Europe best visibly it was from March to April 1997.
Slangly a Cometen is a dirty snowball: He exits of a loose muxture from dust, rock and ice, whose will be holded together from frozen gases (icy water, carbo-dioxide-snow, methane, ammonia, cyane, and so on).
{Look also: Das Kosmos Himmelsjahr 1997; Sonne, Mond und Sterne im Jahreslauf; S. 52ff; ISSN 0439-1551}