Photography by Dave Schmahl

 

Comet Hyakutake


Date: Sat March 30, 1996
Time: 10:00PM 
Location: Highway 79, about 40 miles East of San Diego, looking NW.
Equipment: 50mm lens at f2.8 ,1000 Kodak Gold, 20sec exposure, unguided.

Hyakutake was Southeast of Perseus in this image.  In the light of the full moon, the hillside in the foreground appears to be in daylight.