Photography by Dave Schmahl

 

Comet Hyakutake


Date: Tue March 26, 1996
Time: 10:00PM 
Location: Interstate 8, 40 miles East of San Diego, looking due North.
Equipment: 50mm lens at f2.8 ,1000 Kodak Gold, 20sec exposure, unguided.
 

Hyakutake was Southeast of Perseus on this Spring night.  The bright object in the left part of the image is the planet Venus.  The open cluster, The Pleiades, is just below the planet.