IC 5146, the Cocoon Nebula, is the tiny scarlet glow above the ion tail.
North is to the upper right.
This comet has a good chance to be the best-observed comet in the history of mankind. And those two were only 1st magnitude. Peaking at about magnitudes 0 and -1, respectively, they outshone everything in the night sky except the Moon and the brightest planets and stars. For anyone who has gotten into astronomy later than 1976, Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp presented the first opportunities to see a bright comet at all. They were a study in contrasts.