Object: Comet Ikeya Zhang
Date: 3/9/02
Location: Upham, NM
Telescope: Celestron Firstscope ST-80mm, f/5, refractor
Guiding: None. ST-80 was piggy-back mounted on a polar-aligned LX200.
Camera: Pentax K1000 @ Prime Focus
Film: 35mm Fuji Superia X-tra 800
Exposure: Single 10-minute exposure
Film Processing: Film processed at PDQ in Las Cruces and negative scanned with a Pacific Image PF-1800 Silver Scanner.
Comments: This beautiful comet returned to our part of the solar system this spring for the first in over 300 years.

© Dave Dockery 2001