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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-03-25 02:27:25

30 years ago these days comet #Hyakutake amazed in the northern skies - even close to Polaris one day - with a close approach to Earth and a super-long bright plasma tail: youtube.com/watch?v=H6uCHBqfZlk is a 15-min. excerpt from a documentary (I actually have the VHS cassette ...) about creating fantastic timelapse sequences of the latter from images shot on film. See also facebook.com/photo/?fbid=16298 and facebook.com/richard.berry.777 and facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26701 and facebook.com/don.davis1/posts/ for other still images.