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By Jarle Aasland
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10.04 1997 at 19.21 (Local Norwegian time)
Wonderfull Pictures
I very much enjoy your photos of Hale Bopp.Within the last 2 weeks I have gone out with my Cannon F-1 and its 50mm 1.8 to attempt some myself if they barely approximate yours and the other gazers I'll be happy. I find the comet to marvelously facinating just to view.Images such as yours from the numerous locations that have been post tothe various sites make it all the more so. Thank you, MartyMarty Visnosky/martykanpa@juno.com
10.04 1997 at 18.29 (Local Norwegian time)
Hei Jarle
I saw the comet from the norwegian Moutains (Haukeli) by night with no lights from the city. It Was fantastic.Jan P. Mikaelsen/ jmikaels @ sn.no
10.04 1997 at 06.37 (Local Norwegian time)
Hale-Bopp: Pictures from all over the world
Great pictures! It was very helpful including technical info such as film, exposure time and aperture. I still haven't seen the comet from the Philippines. I don't know where to look.Noel Ombrog
10.04 1997 at 02.02 (Local Norwegian time)
Howdy from Cody, Wyoming USA
Thanks for posting our story - its fun getting out with Dewey V for astro adventures. Hi to all who see your page. Get out and just look - some of the best things happen when you just use your eyes.Andy Frazier - andrewf@trib.com
10.04 1997 at 00.30 (Local Norwegian time)
Great pictures!!!
As I told you on my mail, this are amazing pictures!!!
Its a shame that here in Mexico we cant see the comet so perfectly!!!
Karla Fuentes al276796@academ01.lag.itesm.mx
09.04 1997 at 19.01 (Local Norwegian time)
Great Stuff
Your images are fantastic!! I live in South Africa and realy enjoy Space.hydroman@iafrica.com
08.04 1997 at 15.55 (Local Norwegian time)
Many thanks
Dear Jarle--Hi from Boston Mass. U.S.A.
I forwarded one of your photos to my daughter. My
six year old grandaughter became quite excited!
They have been viewing the comet every clear
night. My daughter printed out the photo, and the
child took it to Kindergarten class, and recieved
extra points for it!There are no better images
than yours. Keep them coming! Thanks again.
Jean BenwayGrandma_Benway@webtv.net(Jean Benway)
07.04 1997 at 00.28 (Local Norwegian time)
FANTASTIC!!!!!
Sir your pictures are absolutely fantastic. I have downloaded more of yours than anyone elses for my own personal enjoyment. I am a 49 year old mailman in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. I am going to try to take some of my own but the last few days have been cloudy and we haven't been able to see the comet. This whole thing is thrilling to me because it is a once in a liftime experience for the whole world today. Have taken pictures into work and posted them for people to look at but the reaction has been "So what. It's just a comet." Thank you so much for all the great pictures and keep up the fabulous work. Now that I am able to read the address and your email address I will stay in touch. Thanks again......Carl BischoffCarl Bischoff gacbiii@flash.net
06.04 1997 at 08.34 (Local Norwegian time)
Howdy fromTexas
Hello from Belton,Texas!!! My seven-year old and I saw the
Comet tonight for the first time on our way out the front door to eat at Taco Bell. We viewed it further from the top of a nearby dam, and when we returned home we researched it on the Internet and found your site. Congratulations on your
excellent photos, and thank you for making them available
for us "Texans" to see!!!cfisher@vvm.com (Callie Fisher)
06.04 1997 at 04.15 (Local Norwegian time)
great stuff
say hi to stavanger, we lived there in 1975 to 1979. great city, great people. worked for phillips petroleum.jim cusack, jimlinda@lcc.net
06.04 1997 at 01.30 (Local Norwegian time)
THANKS JARLE!
Thanks so much for E Mail giving me your home page location. Have checked it out and find it to be the best. Mere thanks does not seem enough. Best of everything to you and yours,keep up the great work.Ruth Doyle tagalong@spectra.net
05.04 1997 at 12.20 (Local Norwegian time)
Hello
Your images of Hale-Bopp are excellent.
Michael Logan
Philadelphia, PA
USAMichael Logan
05.04 1997 at 02.31 (Local Norwegian time)
4/4/97 Greetings From Boise ,Idaho.
I enjoyed your Home Page and I think you have taken some amazing pictures of the comet. I was out last night in the desert and observed comet Hale-Bopp with my Astronomy class at Boise State University. The view of the comet from out side the Boise city limits was pretty amazing last night!
P.S. I was in Stavanger Summer of 1993 for a short visit before I attended Toten Folkehøgskole for the 1993 -94 School year. Stavanger is a beautiful place!!!! :D Have a Nice Day!Katrina Puett E-mail Address: kmpuet@ccmail.monsanto.com
04.04 1997 at 22.36 (Local Norwegian time)
Ingen spørsmål.
Bra bilder Jarle!Alf Rune Buer Syversen
04.04 1997 at 16.32 (Local Norwegian time)
hello
hiDoug grelemann
04.04 1997 at 15.13 (Local Norwegian time)
Hi up there
Great pictures youv'e got there on your page. Must be quite a bit more scenic up north!
A friend of mine has as well got a page about astronomy, rather from the physical aspect though (we studied together). Here it is:
http://iqe.ethz.ch/irp/astro/astro.html
Keep going like this, I like the real good pictures!
Have a good weekend
BalzBalz Mueller
04.04 1997 at 05.25 (Local Norwegian time)
Hello from Brooklyn!
This is Toni Savage. I would like to know how to obtain a print of your picture from 00:00 March 29, 1997. My mother has fallen in love with it . She is 72 years old and cannot get out to see the comet, but she admires your picture.76704.33@compuserve.com
04.04 1997 at 04.14 (Local Norwegian time)
comet pictures
very interesting, have a nice day!mallach@clds
04.04 1997 at 00.59 (Local Norwegian time)
Thanks!
Beautiful images! This is much nicer than the view from Chicago . . . . Do you know of any good photos of the comet from Bergen?
-Astridastrid@uchicago.edu
04.04 1997 at 00.08 (Local Norwegian time)
Compliments
nice pictures!
uKor van Hulten, NL
03.04 1997 at 19.45 (Local Norwegian time)
Thank-you!
Thanks so much for your beautiful web site. It is a real joy!
DoyleDoyle Stevenson doyles@loyclark.com
03.04 1997 at 17.28 (Local Norwegian time)
Nice pics!
these are some of the best comet pics i have yet see.
what sort of film/filter did you use to get the tail so blue? i went out wednesday night last week with a rented nikon 200mm f2 lens & fuji super g 800, but did not get results like that. my pix were blurry and i can't tell if it was focus or the shaky mount on my 8" celestron. any hints?sandy macleod evtemps@colorado.net
03.04 1997 at 17.00 (Local Norwegian time)
Hale-Bopp Photos
Thanks for beautiful Hale-Bopp images!
Regards
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03.04 1997 at 14.04 (Local Norwegian time)
Your Lovely Hale-Bopp Photos
Hale-Bopp is a wonder and an excitement that just grows and grows
--viewing in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia has been
great--the internet photos (and I found you through Astronomy
Picture of the Day) enhance the dimension of my naked eye
and binocular viewing. Anyone whose imagination is not
captured by Hale-Bopp is dead! This is not one of my
"stellar" compositions, but it popped out when I was writing
a friend of my Hale-Bopp experience:
Hale-Bopp
Cosmic traveller
Bopping about the universe
So hale and hearty
I saw him in the morning sky
He took my breath away
His big old tail spreading out
Glorious like a bridal veil
When next I saw him in the night
He was just a little fuzz
Skimming above the trees
Washed out by the full moon light
But now he's climbed still higher
And moved further to the south
The moon has left the sky to him
And stars and planets dance
In cool, wind-washed sky
To pay him homage
Though he outshines them all
He's big again and spreads his tail
For all the world to see
But when I gaze upon his beauty
I know he does it all for me
Judy Humphrey
3/27/97
andiamo@cfw.com
It is no wonder the ancient world spun stories about the sky--
and gave personality to the stars and planets! I am caught
up in the same excitement, wonder, magic, spell, beauty,
and mystery!Judy Humphrey/andiamo@cfw.com
03.04 1997 at 00.02 (Local Norwegian time)
great images !
Thanks for the great images on internet, we've shown them
to novices when the sky was covered here in Belgium.
Keep up the good work and once again congratulationsVanbeselaere Johan / jvb@digilife.be
02.04 1997 at 23.57 (Local Norwegian time)
Goddag!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures. We've been viewing Hale-Bopp in northern California for the past few weeks. How vast the universe is, that this comet has been speeding through it and yet appears in the same portion of our sky each night for weeks on end.E. Olson Jeffrey, wordwork@jps.net
02.04 1997 at 23.39 (Local Norwegian time)
Hale-Bopp Astrophotos
I wrote you an E-mail note a few days ago to which you kindly replied. As my wife and I have noted many times you are a skilled ARTIST! Beautiful pictures and composition!
Thanks for the tip re: picture-of-the-day... I've bookmarked it now.
Art Kotz
Arthur R. Kotz (arkotz@concentric.net)
02.04 1997 at 12.31 (Local Norwegian time)
Comment
Dear Jarle,
thank you very much for this wonderful pictures
of Hale-Bopp!
All the best,
Peter Knipper
knipper@zedat.fu-berlin.de
01.04 1997 at 22.14 (Local Norwegian time)
Great pictures !
Congratulations with those beautiful pictures.
Is the sky in Norway really that colorful ?
Here in Belgium we see the comet high in the north
west sky, not that beautiful as your pictures.
We'll visit your site daily.
Keep on showing picture.
Thank and best regards from Belgium to Norway.Dirk.Heyvaert@ping.be
01.04 1997 at 15.43 (Local Norwegian time)
Magnificent Pictures
Your pictures of the comet are magnificent. I love the frame of reference you give with trees, buildings, and the city in the background. I also feel a kinship since some of our closest friends are from StvangerLenny Findley
01.04 1997 at 04.36 (UT+1)
Thank you
The most stunning photographs we have seen... beautiful!Bruce Thaeler "bthael@toolcity.net"
01.04 1997 at 04.22 (UT+1)
HALE-BOPP
Your pictures are the very best yet. Truly amazing! They should be entered in a photo contest.
Congratulations!asweeney@sympatico.ca
31.03 1997 at 23.39 (UT+1)
Amazing pictures
It was a beautifull open sky this evening with lots of stars. I have been observing the comet the whole evening.
It was a great experience. A few minutes ago I found your amazing pictures on your homepage. Congratulations !
Willems:http://uc2.unicall.be/mwillems/index.htmMarc Willems, Bruges, Belgium:mwillems@unicall.be
31.03 1997 at 23.32 (UT+1)
Hale-Bopp
Great page !
Wim and Marc Willems, Bruges, Belgium
31.03 1997 at 22.17 (UT+1)
Report from Zuerich / Switzerland
I am sitting here in the middle of Zuerich. The sy is not very dark, but Hale-Bopp is really impressing. However: I would like to be in Norway...
Best regards and many thanks!Alexander Tschopp / wordshop@access.ch
30.03 1997 at 20.20 (UT+1)
Excellent pictures!
Your pictures are the best yet I have I seen on the net. Keep up the good work and postings!Michael Tan / michael.tan@usask.ca
30.03 1997 at 03.09 (UT+1)
Beautiful Photos!!
Thanks for these great photos from hale-bopp. I cannot see the comet at many times, because we often had cloudy weather in the last weeks. So I'm happy to find your photos in the internet.Arthur Gaul / A.C.Gaul@t-online.de
30.03 1997 at 01.39 (UT+1)
There are no words...
There are no words to describe my thoughts and feelings when I look at your work. Your ability to capture the spiritual essence of the most fundamental and profound questions of humankind is a gift to the world. You are an artist, scientist, and priest. Thank you.paulkamy@snet.net
30.03 1997 at 00.06 (UT+1)
Question on sky color, and a Thank you!
Sir:
Your Hale-Bopp pictures are stunning- most beautiful that we have seen on the net. Thank you for capturing and sharing them.
My wife and I have both been in Norway on various occasions, but not together, and not in Stavanger. The visual interest of the various landscapes and sky colors, together with the comet, show great creativity and artistry.
You have a number of pictures around midnight, UT, which I believe is not too different from your local time. This time of the year, I can't quite imagine that all the orange sky colors are due to the sun. We have passed the equinox and I know that you would have longer periods of sunlight from spring to fall than we would here in Minneapolis, Minnesota (lat. 45 deg), but not that much more - at least not yet. Is part of that sky color due to aurora? Whatever the reason, it certainly makes a beautiful picture.
I once spent 6 weeks on the island of Andoy, from mid-june to late July, and never saw the sun set the whole time. But I believe that you are well south of the land of the midnight sun, and too early in the year in any case.
We will continue to check your web page for the latest images.
R. DuFault
Robert A. DuFault, rdufault@visi.com
29.03 1997 at 19.02 (UT+1)
Finally got here!
After some mistakes, probably on my part, I finally found your page. I originally saw some of your pics on the Nasa home page and have wanted to see more. Thank you for the e-mails and the help in getting here. You definatly have the most awsome pictures on the net. We have been able to see the comet here in Oregon on serveral nights (when the clouds clear!) but it is not anywhere as clear as your pictures. Thanks again and keep up the good work.KK1954@AOL.com
29.03 1997 at 17.35 (UT+1)
WOW!!!!
you have the most amazing photographs I have seen! I'm extremely impressed. Will you be uploading any more photos of your earlier work (pre-today)?Russ Friend rfriend@uakron.edu
29.03 1997 at 14.08 (UT+1)
Thanks......
Thanks for posting your excellent photos of Hale-Bopp. We've been able to see the comet quite clearly out of our kitchen window on cloudless nights here in the North of England - amazing to think of people all round the world watching the same comet at the same time......Liza, zail@dumahcom.u-net.com
29.03 1997 at 09.46 (UT+1)
Wonderful Photos of This Heavenly Event
Thank you for sharing these with the world, from the top of it.Fr. Tommy Davis (tjdisme@inetport.com)
29.03 1997 at 02.51 (UT+1)
Looking forward to more!
Your photographs are absolutely beautiful, thank you for sharing them with the world online!ducecupe@aol.com
29.03 1997 at 02.45 (UT+1)
Hail Hale-Bopp!
We have been watching this comet every clear night here in Southern Maryland. It is great to have the opportunity to see your view. What clarity! Looking forward to seeing more of your photos. Thank you.jhartsig@olg.com
29.03 1997 at 02.36 (UT+1)
from Mechanicsville, Maryland, USA
Beautiful photos! We too are enjoying this spectacular sight. Thanks for sharing.Jenni Hartsig
28.03 1997 at 22.22 (UT+1)
Thank you
Thank you for posting the beautiful photograph of Hale-Bopp. We live in a suburb of Washington, D.C., so the image that we see is not so bright and spectacular as yours.Elizabeth Stanford/stanford@smart.net
28.03 1997 at 22.21 (UT+1)
This is what the Internet is all about
This sort of sharing is the heart of the Internet. Thanks
for bringing these pictures to the world, especially from
a usually cloudy Detroit Michigan, USA.Tom Bone', tbone@wdl.net
28.03 1997 at 06.42 (UT+1)
Thank You!!
Keep up the good work! Thanks for getting back to me by e-mail!!!! The comet is beautiful here in Arizona, USA, but you have really captured it's beauty.
Fawn ClemensFawn Clemens, fawnc@kingman.com
27.03 1997 at 20.22 (UT+1)
Flotte bilder
Takk for din hilsen.
Jeg har nå lagt ut link til din side fra
kometgruppen i Norsk astronomisk selskap
sine sider.
Steinar ThorvaldsenSteinar Thorvaldsen
26.03 1997 at 17.10 (UT+1)
Jarle Aasland/Hale-Bopp Website
Most artistic Hale-Bopp images on the net. Thanks for sharing them
with the rest of the world...Mark Trued, "branmakm@sky.net" Kansas City, Missouri
26.03 1997 at 12.04 (UT+1)
Homepage Paradigm
Looking at your comet images, I'm only now understanding the point of "Internet" & "home-page" & sharing a great experience.......tusen takk, Dave Twiss, Stavanger, Norwaydtw@statoil.no
26.03 1997 at 03.10 (UT+1)
Great Pictures
I have really enjoyed the great pictures of Hale-Bopp. Keep up the good work. We see it easily here in the evening now.
---Gene Winfreew5ade@bayou.com
26.03 1997 at 01.30 (UT+1)
thanks
I've really been enjoying your Hale-Bopp pictures. Thank you very much for the effort, and please keep up the good work!
--john mooremoore3@apple.com
25.03 1997 at 18.33 (UT+1)
ALE ZDJECIA!
Pozdrowienia z Krakowa, skad te komete te¿ widac.Staszek Mancewicz e-mail:s.mancewicz@krak.gazeta.pl
25.03 1997 at 04.05 (UT+1)
MARAVILLOSAS!!!
Wonderful Pictures!!!
Muchas Gracias/Many Thanks.
Colombia, (S.A.)J. Murillo
25.03 1997 at 03.04 (UT+1)
Outstanding!!!
I can't really add anymore to what has already been said, these are the most beautiful picture of a comet I've seen.
My son and me have spent many hours looking at them.
Thank you very much from South Carolina USAScott Silvia
24.03 1997 at 22.50 (UT+1)
hale=bopp
Your pictures are magnificent. Thank you for sharing. I live in California and the comet looked even better than previous days on March 23rd. Especially during the eclipse.carterjj
24.03 1997 at 20.00 (UT+1)
Mine komplementer!
Nydelige bilder. Har sett de fleste på JPL før. Nå begynner endlig noen flere å tenke på forgrunnen.
Er spent på været og resultatene når det blir nymåne!
Helge StorhaugHelge Storhaug, hstorhau@robin.no
24.03 1997 at 17.33 (UT+1)
Excellent
I read about this comet in January, being in Poland, but couldn't see it at all. March 22, I saw it very easily
on the sky above Paris, and today started net-surfing for some details. Your pictures are the best I found on the web!
Cheers!
Piotr Wisniewski (wisniew@llb.saclay.cea.fr)
24.03 1997 at 15.57 (UT+1)
Spectacular
Jarle Aasland's photography alone makes me glad we invested
in the computer. Thank you! We're from Maryland, USA.TKshome.aol.com
24.03 1997 at 15.28 (UT+1)
We saw it !!
Our family saw the comet for the first time March 23rd.
We live in central New York State [USA]. Skies have been very overcast previous to this. It was great!simmons@baldcom.net
24.03 1997 at 14.47 (UT+1)
Hilsen fra Muenchen
Hej og venlig hilsen fra ESO. Jeg er meget imponeret over dine flotte billeder og har anbragt et link til din side fra ESO's 'Other sites':
http://www.eso.org/comet-hale-bopp/
Med de bedste oensker om fortsat godt vejr!
Richard Westrwest@eso.org
23.03 1997 at 20.00 (UT+1)
From Cloudy Illinois
Really enjoying your work. Especially with the weather in Illinois this time of year.Raul Sosa /sosa@ncesc.org
23.03 1997 at 17.46 (UT+1)
Many thanks...
...for sharing your wonderful photographs with us. I saw Hale-Bopp in real life for the first time last night...in the clear , spring-time Georgia sky.Charles Cone, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ccone@mindspring.com
23.03 1997 at 15.34 (UT+1)
THANK YOU
I love astronomy! Please continue taking such pictures!Gøran Johnsen, Malvik
23.03 1997 at 06.13 (UT+1)
Out of This World Pictures!
Vakker! Thanks for the beautiful pictures! I agree with Daniel's comment. These photographs are strikingly beautiful and appealing to the eye, as well as showing magnificent landscapes. In addition to taking pictures, you even have time to answer your e-mail! Tusen takk Jarle!Ray Byrum -- rwbyrum@flash.net
23.03 1997 at 01.41 (UT+1)
Bravo!
Really great images! Thank you for sharing them with all of us. This is the best way to use Internet!Alberto Piselli -a.piselli@areacom.it
23.03 1997 at 01.37 (UT+1)
Fantastic
Some of the best pictures on the internet of the Comet I've seen. Fantastic. I'll be checking everyday. Thanks for the great work.Oline Edge oedge@remc11.k12.mi.us
22.03 1997 at 23.33 (UT+1)
A fan of your pictures
Again your Hale-Bopp picture are wonderful; the most beatiful i've seen upon internet until now.
Did you photograph some other space object like stars or
planets ?Di Vita Francesco divita@fileita.it
22.03 1997 at 22.21 (UT+1)
Veronica and Sindre
This pictures was really great! We enjoyed watching them. We`ve seen the Hale-Bopp lots of times..
How far away is the comet? Of what does it consist?
Continue making such nice pictures!
Veronica and Sindre, TrondheimVeronica and Sindre
22.03 1997 at 14.53 (UT+1)
HALE-BOPP PÅ PETRE
Hale-Bopp var tema i første "episode" fra Herreavdelingens nysatsing : ...da setter vi direkte over til "Institutt for Teoretisk Astrofysikk". 2.Påskedag prates det om SORTE HULL.
Stilig bilde!!!randi.misfjord@nrk.no
22.03 1997 at 13.24 (UT+1)
Great Pics
Thanks for sharing your great pictures of Comet Hale Bopp.
I very much enjoyed seeing them...Jim Rasmusson, Minneapolis MN USA
22.03 1997 at 03.26 (UT+1)
Great!
Thank you Jarle! Your photos are just great to share!
Which film to you like most?
Isn't the internet great???
Thomas Everth, New Hampshire, USAeverth@compuserve.com
21.03 1997 at 23.23 (UT+1)
cool pictures
Hello from Las Vegas again (Nevada, USA), we are a fifth grade class in science lab this afternoon. We read your mail to the fourth grade class -- sounds so neat....thanks.we were wondering one thing. How do you get the comet to look so close up and yet there are pictures of real things in the picture, too....Like the one with the trees in the foreground and the one with the chain in the foreground. That is really super how you do that. Talk to you again soon. and keep taking those pictures for us.
Ms. Koschnick's class in Ms. Grimes' science lab
grimesk@aspen.interact.k12.nv.us
21.03 1997 at 18.48 (UT+1)
Oh Boy what a site
We are so pleased to visit this site again and again. thank so mkuch for the time you´ve made free to make this site. We will tell all to visit it. In Denmark a commercial says: Faxe.....Damn good beer. Now let´s redo it to: Jarle Aasland......Damn good pictures. Hi for now Members of the youthclub "Spidsen" Koege Denmark120010105378@tele5.dk.
21.03 1997 at 18.39 (UT+1)
sajaa@sn.no
VERY NICE PICTURES-I ENJOY VISITING YOUR SITE BECAUSE THE PICTURES HAVE SOMETHING MORE IN THEM THAN WHAT MOST PEOPLE SEEM TO PUT IN THEIR SITE. THEY ARE SIMPLE,STRAIGHT FORWARD,APPEALING TO THE EYE,AND BASICLY BEAUTIFUL. THE BEST OF THE DAY TO YOU, DANIELDaniel Mondea------dmondea@netcom.ca
21.03 1997 at 16.35 (UT+1)
Waow!
This is my very first day on the internet, and I don't know how I got to your home page, but I'm really glad that I did: your photos are absolutely astonishing. I hope I can find you again tomorrow!Kirsten, Denmark
21.03 1997 at 03.11 (UT+1)
Hale-Bopp
I am in Austin Texas and can see Hale-Bopp from our backyard as a small bluury star in the northwest sky. You did a great job with your photos. Thanks, Sean Henryshenry1@ibm.net
19.03 1997 at 23.55 (UT+1)
Great site!
Great site with a lot of high quality pictures! Keep up the good work.Jan Gunnar Furuly
19.03 1997 at 22.17 (UT+1)
Hale Bopp, dimensions
Can you give me som technical data about Hale Bopp.? Such as dimensions compared to other known objects.ddahlber@online.no
19.03 1997 at 14.01
Comments, questions?
Someone had to be first. If you wish a personal reply, be sure to leave your e-mail address. The response on my Hale-Bopp images has been overwhelming. I keep getting mail from all over the World, and I try to answer them all. Thank you very much!Jarle Aasland (sajaa@sn.no)
All images ©1997 Jarle Aasland