Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 from the UK

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 Comet Hale-Bopp photographed at Cambridge on April 15th., 1997.

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 Photograph taken from west of Worcester on March 28th., 1997, showing two tails.

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Additional comet pictures (this is a miscellaneous collection; except for the Hale-Bopp ones available directly from this page, only kohoutek.jpg (taken from Trinity College, Cambridge; the comet is the faint streak to the right of the much brighter Venus and Jupiter), and hyakutake.jpg, are my own photos).