This is probably the best image I have taken of Mars and shows quite fine detail that was not seen in the eyepiece the same night. Image scale is approximately 4 arc minutes across. The image is made up of two 20 second images. A number of jets can be seen emanating from the coma. At this time it could clearly be seen moving against the background stars with only a few minutes between exposures.
North is up.
The following sequence of images are highly enhanced negative's to show the spiral form of the Comet's central region that appeared radial arc's in the eyepiece. Image scale is approximately 150 arc seconds across. The image is one 0.2 second exposure to ensure that the coma is not saturated. A main jet can be seen emanating from the coma. This would be the start of an amazing time for comet Hale-Bopp.