Another WIYNer
Here, hot off one of the world's premier telescopes, is a portrait of
Comet Hale-Bopp, a "whopper of a comet," as described in
uncharacteristically plain English by one astronomer. Hale-Bopp, the
astronomers say, is indeed living up to its advance billing as one
of the
brightest and most spectacular comets in recent memory. This image
was
captured by the WIYN Telescope, a 3.5 meter telescope atop Kitt
Peak,
Ariz. WIYN, run by a consortium
that includes the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, Yale and the National Optical
Astronomical Observatories, is ideal for observing comets because of
its
very wide field of view (comets take up a lot of sky) and special
instrumentation. If you'd like to learn more about this blazing ball
of ice
and dust, tune into our recent treatise on Hale-Bopp.
Here, hot off one of the world's premier telescopes, is a portrait of
Comet Hale-Bopp, a "whopper of a comet," as described in
uncharacteristically plain English by one astronomer. Hale-Bopp, the
astronomers say, is indeed living up to its advance billing as one
of the
brightest and most spectacular comets in recent memory. This image
was
captured by the WIYN Telescope, a 3.5 meter telescope atop Kitt
Peak,
Ariz. WIYN, run by a consortium
that includes the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, Yale and the National Optical
Astronomical Observatories, is ideal for observing comets because of
its
very wide field of view (comets take up a lot of sky) and special
instrumentation. If you'd like to learn more about this blazing ball
of ice
and dust, tune into our recent treatise on Hale-Bopp.
Image courtesy of Walt Harris, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
