Comet Hyakutake The Movie

One of the greatest comets in recent times, comet Hyakutake’s close approach to the Earth in the spring of 1996 allowed Canadian telescope maker and astrophotographer Peter Ceravolo to capture detail in the dynamic tail in hundreds of images spanning a two week period. Fellow astronomy enthusiast Douglas George strung the images together to bring the comet to life in a time lapse sequence that, to this day, still has no equal. While Peter photographed the tail with a wide field telescope from Arizona, Paul