Comet NEOWISE
Taken by Fred Espenak on July 5, 2020 @
Portal, AZ
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D7200
Exposure Time: 3/1
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2020:07:05 15:32:00
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July 5 - my third consecutive morning observing Comet NEOWISE. When I held my 7x40 binoculars to my eyes to search for the comet (around 4:05 am), it was nowhere to be seen. But there was a suspicious dark cloud band near the horizon. Could NEOWISE be hiding behind it? So I waited a few minutes. Finally at 4:15 am, the comet started to rise out of the clouds.
Today its tail looks longer and the coma is brighter. I also found that I could see the comet with the naked eye about 3/4 of the time. I attribute this to the comet getting higher in the sky where the morning twilight glow isn't so bright.
This photo was taken with a Nikon D7200, 70-300mm Nikon zoom at 300mm, f/8, 3 seconds, ISO 800, no tracking. Exposure was determined by trial and error in Manual exposure mode.
Dark View Observatory, Portal, AZ.
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