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(meteorobs) Daily Hale-Bopp Pictures
Press Release ING 2/97
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING)*, La Palma.
Contact: Javier Mendez Alvarez, jma@ing.iac.es
DAILY HALE-BOPP PICTURES
Santa Cruz de La Palma, the 18th of March 1997.- The Isaac Newton Group of
Telescopes (ING) is showing pictures of the Hale-Bopp, through Internet,
which are updated on a daily basis. These pictures are being taken
mainly by the CoCam (Comet Camera), the wide field CCD imaging facility
of the ING. By doing this, ING hopes nobody will miss the spectacle of the
Hale-Bopp. It will also allow everyone to follow its evolutions during the
days of its brightest visibility.
On the web page, apart from the pictures taken with CoCam since its first
light on the 6th of March, you can also find other pictures taken with the
ING telescopes. On the other hand, there is an interesting section
dedicated to recent scientific news on Hale-Bopp, press releases
produced by ING, and a list of links to other information resources
available on the web that talk about the comet. The Hale-Bopp page is
updated daily. The URLs are:
http://ing.iac.es/HB/HBindex.html Hale-Bopp page.
http://ing.iac.es/~jma/HB/latest.html Latest Picture
http://ing.iac.es/~jma/PR/PressPhoto1_97.gif Press Photo ING 1/97.
http://ing.iac.es/~jma/PR/caption1_97.html Caption Press Photo ING 1/97.
http://ing.iac.es ING home page.
CoCam was designed and built by the ING to carry out narrow band photometry
of the comet. It consists of a CCD plus a zoom tele-objective. The
field of view is up to 20 degrees.
The three ING telescopes will continue to take an active part in the
international campaign of Hale-Bopp observations carried out by the European
Group constituted in 1996 to study this comet. These observations are
possible thanks to the 5% of the observational time that the ING offers
to international research projects.
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* The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes is run by The United Kingdom and The
Netherlands and consists of the William Herschel (4.2 m), the Isaac Newton
(2.5 m) and the Jacobus Kapteyn (1.0 m) telescopes. William Herschel
telescope is the most powerful telescope of the Roque de Los Muchachos
Observatory, La Palma, Spain
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