The wonderful comet Hale-Bopp with a blue gas tail and a grey dust tail. Guided with a telescope. Minolta SRT-101, Minolta MC 300mm f/4.5, Kodak Gold 400, Raten, April 1st, 1997 — EXIF: LS-50The wonderful comet Hale-Bopp with a blue gas tail and a grey dust tail. Unfortunately some branches of a tree are in the picture. Back then without digital cameras I noticed that only after development of the film. Combination of three pictures. Guided with a telescope. — Minolta SRT-101, Minolta MC 300mm f/4.5, Kodak Gold 400, Raten, 1 April 1997Comet Hale-Bopp above the woods on the Raten. — Minolta SRT-101, 50mm lens, 1 April 1997The core of the comet Hale-Bopp. Combination of five pictures. — Minolta SRT-101, Vixen Refraktor d=90mm f=1000mm, 1+2+4+8+16s, Fujicolor Super G 400, Raten, 2. April 1997The core of the comet Hale-Bopp. One can see a kind of "shock wave" caused by evaporating gas on a rotating core. Combination of three pictures with eyepiece projection. — Minolta SRT-101, Vixen Refraktor d=90mm f=1000mm, 16+30+60s, Fujicolor Super G 400, Raten, 2. April 1997
Star trails of the rising constellation Orion. This picture was taken in 1998 while we were waiting for the big Leonid meteor shower which came one year later.
The rising Sun behind palm leaves on Stromboli. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997It' morning and the Sun is rising above the sea and casts a reflection on the neighbouring roof. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Moon with lava eruption and smoke from Stromboli volcano. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Moon between the two eruptive craters of Stromboli. Note the pretty trails of glowing boulders rolling down the slope on the right. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Setting moon crescent behind a high lava eruption of Stromboli volcano. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Setting moon crescent behind a high lava eruption of Stromboli volcano. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997The church of the village San Vincenzo on Stromboli. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997A house on Stromboli with a pretty pink facade. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Magic scenery in the dusk: A volcano eruption and a setting constellation of Antares, Mars, Venus and the Moon. The reed is illuminated with a fluorescent tube lamp. They moved with the wind and are therefore blurred. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Star trails over stromboli volcano. The white dots are flashlights from tourists and the snaky line are peoply hiking down the slope. This image was shot from the pizzeria. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Light beams and reflections on the water surface. Shot from the summit of Stromboli volcano. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, 6. October 1997The smoking craters of the Stromboli volcano. Shot from the summit. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, 6. October 1997Looking back from the summit. The pizzaria is the white building on the left hand side and on the right is Strombolicchio, a remnant of an earlier volcano. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, 6. October 1997The neighbouring islands Alicudi and Filicudi in the mist as seen from the summit of Stromboli. — Minolta XD-7, Stromoli, Italy, 6. October 1997Reflection of the setting sun on the quiet sea as seen from the summig of Stromboli volcano. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, 6. October 1997What a romantic and peaceful sunset at Stromboli with a smoking dangerous volcano and reflection of the sunlight on the sea. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, 6. October 1997This is my favourite picture from Stromboli. The rainbow colours of the dusk with an eruption of the volcano. On the top is the moon. The brightest three stars are from left to right: Antares in the Constellation Scorpio and the Planets Mars and Venus. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997The small village San Bartolo on Stromboli — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Strombolicchio the core of an old volcano and a ship passing by. — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997Just a butterfly — Minolta XD-7, Stromboli, Italy, October 1997View from the top of the crater edge of Vulcano towards Lipari, Panarea and Stromboli on the right. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Looking down to the village. On the other end of the island one can see Vulcanello, the little inactive volcano crater. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Ivan kneeling in steam clouds of hydrosulfide, holding his breath for taking a picture. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Water steam and hydrosulfide is evaporating from this fumarole on the volcano Vulcano — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Eruptive material from the last eruption in 1890. Sulfur coloured this rock yeallow. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Holding my breath I took this picture of the island Panarea (left: and Stromboli (right: across the crater rim of Vulcano. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997A hydrofoil approaching the harbour of Vulcano — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Clouds of steam and hydrosulfide. The two islands on the horizon are Alicudi and Filicudi, the westernmost islands of the Lipari archipel. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997A stone, yellow from sulfur. This stone was thrown here in the last big eruption in 1890. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997View from the inactive little volcano Vulcanello in the north towards the bay on the western part of the island. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997On Vulcanello looking towards the street between Lipari and Vulcano. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997The sulfur rock close to the harbour of Vulcano. A stinking rock of yellow and red sulfur. Here one can see the little inactive volcano Vulcanello which lies in the northern part of the island Vulcano. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997The steam springs in the little bay right beside the sulfur rock. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997View from the summit of the big crater on Vulcano: Here one can see the neigbouring island Lipari and the northern part of Vulcano with the little volcano Vulcanello. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Yellow crater rim with steam clouds of evaporating water and hydrosulfide. The islands in the hazy background are Panarea (left: and Stromboli (right:. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Steam clouds on the crater rim of Vulcano. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Sunset from the top of the Volcano. On the right one can see two hikers walking up the crater slope. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Sunset behind volcanic steam clouds. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997Yeat another kitschy sunset picture, taken from the Vulcano crater. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997A ferry from Siremar and a freight ship on the Mediterranean sea, somewhere between Vulcano and Milazzo. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997This is the city Milazzo in the north of Sicily. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997One of the hydrofoils entering the harbour of Milazzo. — Minolta XD-7, Vulcano, Italy, October 1997The industry zone near the harbour of Milazzo on Sicily. — Minolta XD-7, Sicily, Italy, October 1997
