All the Hale-Bopp photographs shown here were taken from Anglesey mostly during March and April 1997. Details about the film and exposure accompany each image. Most of these were taken with a telephoto lens with camera 'piggy-backed' onto the telescope, to keep the comet centred during the exposure.
 

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The photograph here was taken in 1996 and shows the comet before it approached Earth. This was actually a 'practice piggyback' photo, and it wasn't until much later that I found out that I had photographed the comet!

This shows the part of the sky where the comet was in august 1996. (Star charts created using SkyMap Pro.)

The above shows the comet (which is visible as a fuzzy blob between two stars). The stars are visible as small trails because the telescope wasn't polar aligned accurately enough - the exercise was to practice taking piggy-backed photos, the presence of the comet was an added bonus. The chart below shows the location of the comet.