HALE-BOPP PHOTOGRAPHED AT BILKENT UNIVERSITY

The Comet Hale-Bopp:


This photograph of the Hale-Bopp comet was taken using our telescope at about 5:00, on March 6th.
To see more of our photographs taken at that time, click on the picture.


This photograph was taken with our telescope at 19:00, on March 13th.

The comet Hale-Bopp is no longer visible. We could still see the "tail" in the telescope observation session on May 8th, but it was nowhere as impressive as the view in April.

For more information on the comet, see the this Sky Publishing link: http://www.skypub.com/comets/comets.shtml .
European Southern Observatory has a web page with daily updates and lots of pictures.