Photography by Dave Schmahl

 

 Comet Hyakutake


Date: Tues March 26, 1996
Time: 9:00PM 
Location: Interstate 8, looking due North from a View Point about 40 miles East of San Diego.
Equipment: 50mm lens at f2.8 ,1000 Kodak Gold, 20sec exposure, unguided.
 

This was the day that Comet Hyakutake passed just a few degrees SW of Polaris. That's Polaris, the bright star just above and to the right of the comet.