A Hale-Bopp Triple Crown . ... In one of the more spectacular photos yet submitted to Astronomy Picture of the Day , Don Cooke of Lyme, New Hampshire caught the Sun , Moon, Earth , night sky , Pleiades star cluster , and Comet Hale-Bopp all in one frame. ... This shadow is actually a silhouette of a driveway reflector mounted on an aluminum rod used to block out the bright moon - so as to allow a third exposure, this time unfiltered, of the background night sky. And what a beautiful sky it is. ...