Where Is NEOWISE?
Taken by Doug Zubenel on August 2, 2020 @
De Soto, Kansas.
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
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Date Taken: 2020:08:03 11:01:10
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Comet NEOWISE has finally climbed high enough into the western evening sky for me to observe it just over the neighbor's trees with our 12.5-inch f/10 reflector. At 10:20 pm the coma was a huge, vaguely green fuzzball at 244 X with just a hint of a stubby tail, and had two faint stars shining right through it! Not a trace of a pseudo-nucleus was visible. I piggybacked the camera with a 24 mm lens @ f/4 and a 161 second exposure at ISO 400. Can you see the comet in the full-frame photo? The cropped image shows it better, sporting a faint, short tail. This whole experience of following the comet in the morning, and then evening sky has been awesome and the brightest I've seen since McNaught in early January of 2007, which was visible 2 degrees above the western horizon just after sunset with the naked eye on January 6th! Observing NEOWISE tonight in the driveway - surrounded by trees and serenaded by a very vocal Barred Owl in the bright moonlight - was the bomb!
Photographer's website:
https://twanight.org
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