Sunday, July 19, 2020

Comet Neowise

While there are certainly better pictures of comet Neowise on the net, I did see the comet and was able to take a picture of it with my hand-held cell phone.  There is a night-time setting on the phone camera that allows longer duration shots.  Their advice was to hold the camera steady, although I imagine there must be some image stabilization algorithms at work as well.

In the picture, one can see the comet a bit above the treeline shadow and well below the two end stars of the cup of the big-dipper constellation.




































Below is a blowup of the above image, just focusing on the comet in the center of the picture.

The comet is faint in the pictures, but a bright head with a streaming tail is certainly discernible.


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