Photography by Steven Sharpe


"Comet Halley and the Pleiades"

 

A rather faint Comet Halley passes southwest of the Pleiades. It is the fuzzy object just below centre. Photographed in November 1985 - a good five months before its closest approach to Earth - and within days of its opposition, so at this point it does not show much of a tail.

Technical details: probably used my Miranda dx-3 with a Vivitar 135mm F3.5 lens wide open, Fujichrome 100 slide film, a five minute exposure piggybacked on my Celestron 5 telescope from my parent's light polluted back yard in London Ontario. Scanned with an Epson Expression 4990 Photo scanner.

 


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