Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
Taken by Jeremy Perez on July 18, 2020 @
North of Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Exposure Time: 13/1
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 25600
Date Taken: 2020:07:19 01:52:26
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North of Flagstaff tonight and a half hour stretch where clouds weren't flexing directly across the comet. Pretty cool to see striae putting a kink in the dust tail along with that diffuse bifurcation. Airglow was kind of a purple & green porridge tonight. After this tripod exposure, I set it up for tracked shots, but like all the rest, those deep ones have to wait until I'm feeling better about the processing. ||
While the cameras were firing away, I worked on the visual details and sketches. The dust tail arced out to about 17 degrees naked eye. It's huge. Not Hyakutake huge, but compared to other comets I've observed over the last 20 years, it's really impressive. I was able to just pick out the ion tail naked eye too—not as a thin beam like in the photograph, but by noting the dark wedge between the two tails. Through 15x70 binoculars, the ion tail was an easy catch and traced out to about 15 degrees. Both dust and ion tails grow so diffuse at their fainter ends that it's hard to determine their extent when magnified like that. ||
18 July 2020, 9:25 PM MST / 0425 GMT ||
Canon EOS 6D Mark II + Tamron 28-75 mm ||
13 sec. x 20, f/3.5, ISO 25,600 ||
20 shots stacked and aligned in Starry Landscape Stacker
Photographer's website:
https://http://www.beltofvenus.net
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