Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake

This comet was discovered on January 30, 1996 by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake (1951 - April 10-11, 2002), using a powerful pair of giant binoculars (25x150), only 1 1/2 months before it passed as close as 15 million km (9.3 million miles) from Earth. The comet delivered a spectacular show with its greenish-blueish colored gas tail of over 100 degrees apparent length in the sky!

This was the second comet discovered by Yuji Hyakutake within a few weeks.
Comet discoverer Yuji Hyakutake has passed away on April 10-11, 2002 at age of only 51.

Obituary from JapanTimes [local copy of obituary message]

Comet Hyakutake Information:

Dead Link! Comet Hyakutake Homepage at JPL
Dead Link! NOAO Hyakutake page
ESO Hyakutake page
G.W. Kronk's Hyakutake page
Ulysses Spacecraft passed Hyakutake's tail (Nasa HQ Press release 00-55): Nasa account - ESA account
NSSDC's informations on comet Hyakutake
Dead Link! Harvard CfA Press Info on Comet Hyakutake
Dead Link! Hyakutake page from the Electronic Universe Project, Greg Bothun, University of Oregon
Dead Link! Hyakutake info and images from Sommers-Bausch Observatory
UKS 33: UKS image of Comet Hyakutake on March 18-19, 1996 (David Malin)
AAO4 78: AAT image of Comet Hyakutake on March 18-19, 1996 (David Malin)
Rosat image of comet Hyakutake (27 Mar 1996) - Image and report from HEASARC
Description and links to images of comet Hyakutake are part of the Comets in 1996 page of The Astronomer

Amateur images of comet Hyakutake:

Dead Link! Hyakutake images from Dan MacIntosh, Andy Nelson and Craig Kulesa (Tucson, AZ)
Dead Link! Comet Hyakutake Scrapbook by David McDavid of Limber Observatory, Texas
Dead Link! Comet Hyakutake by Michael Purcell
Jack Schmidling's Hyakutake images
Hyakutake images by John Walker (Fourmilab, Switzerland)
Dead Link! Hyakutake images from Chris Wetherill, UCCS
Dead Link! Bob Yen's Hyakutake images
Hyakutake images from Konstanz

Hyakutake images at SEDS:

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