Comet Hale-Bopp with a 200mm lens

The open cluster M34 can be seen above Hale-Bopp in this photo. The mysterious saturn like object (near the end of the blue tail) is a meteor, not a spaceship.

This is a 4 minute piggy back exposure with a 200mm lens at f4.

The photo was scanned from the negative.

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