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COMET - ASTRONOMY (KOHOUTEK)
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S73-38390 (6 Dec. 1973) --- An Earth-based photograph of the Comet Kohoutek in the sky on Dec. 6, 1973, when the celestial phenomenon was more than 70 million miles from the sun and some 119 million miles from Earth. This picture was taken from a dark mountain top area of Haleakala (Island of Maui) Hawaii, using a 35mm Nikon camera with a 55mm lens, a 300-second exposure at f/1.2 and with Tri-X film. The photographer was Frank Giovane.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineCOMET - ASTRONOMY (KOHOUTEK). NASA/JSC, 1973-12-14. Public domain. ID: s73-38390.
