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!