Comet Neowise
by MikeInDevon
Comet Neowise showing its greenish coma, ion and dust tails.
Taken on 21 July 2020 from our back garden in Devon, K-50 with Pentax K 200mm f4 wide open, ISO-1600 at 8 sec, full frame post processed with DxO. EXIF says 50mm as I forgot to set the manual lens' focal length. Tripod and cable release.
Taken on 21 July 2020 from our back garden in Devon, K-50 with Pentax K 200mm f4 wide open, ISO-1600 at 8 sec, full frame post processed with DxO. EXIF says 50mm as I forgot to set the manual lens' focal length. Tripod and cable release.
Uploaded05/01/2023 - 06:54
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Posted 05/01/2023 - 10:02
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Thanks and fingers crossed I'll keep a look out fot that one! Since I took that Moon Shot it's hardly stopped raining here.
I'd never seen a comet until I think the 1980s when there were a few bright ones but I didn't photograph any. Since then there have been quiet a few that I've managed to see visually and telescopically but this was the first one (and the only one so far) that I have photographed, always interesting to see!
Cheers
Mike
I'd never seen a comet until I think the 1980s when there were a few bright ones but I didn't photograph any. Since then there have been quiet a few that I've managed to see visually and telescopically but this was the first one (and the only one so far) that I have photographed, always interesting to see!
Cheers
Mike
Posted 05/01/2023 - 15:21
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Thanks, tomorrow I'll post another shot of it showing a wide field.
Posted 06/01/2023 - 20:48
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Fantastic to be able to capture that. Excellent
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I had just got my Newtonian Reflector and this was one of my first targets with it!
There is a comet die this month. C/2022 is due and can be seen in the evening from around the 12th of this month. Hopefully the weather will be clear!
At the beginning there was nothing... which exploded