Comet NEOWISE

[skyraider]

So will I get banned by creating a post in deepskyforum for an object so local? LOL
Just saw, NEOWISE and I hate to admit something so “close” gets me so excited, but I’m pretty stoked! The nucleus is super bright with a beautiful striated tail. It is the quintessential view of a comment I have always wanted to see. A great view in binoculars, even this deep into astronomical twilight. Going to have to get up earlier tomorrow to catch this one in darker skies.

[Vic]

Yes, solar system observing is like doing a meteorology in this forum :)
But I consider comets also as DSOs in the meaning of Dark Sky Objects.
Anyway, the C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is really beautiful! I observed this comet last morning using 48×125, 12×50 and 2×54 pairs of binoculars. This is my 219th comet. Finally we have a nice naked eye comet with a tail! Wow!
Vic

[Jimi Lowrey]

We are overdue for a nice comet!

[Robin]

Hi folks,

Well, I think the techniques for visually observing comets and diffuse deep-sky objects are very similar. :-)

This comet looks impressive with a parabolically shaped tail and a bright and round coma. I observed it this morning (01:50-02:05 UT) with my 12" Dobsonian, when it was only 2° above the horizon. Unfortunately it disappeared behind a large cloud later.

Please find attached my sketch.

Clear skies,

Robin

[Jimi Lowrey]

I was with my friend Mike Grey this AM when he took this image of comet Neowise rising in Tobe gap in the Davis Mountains near our home in Fort Davis Texas.

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[Uwe Glahn]

Wow Jimi, what a unique scenery.

After the many fantastic pictures I tried sketch some impressions next to Robin.

sketch with 3" Newton within very bright NLC's, 30x (7/8/2020)
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sketch with 8x30 binocular (7/10/2020)
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sketch with 5" bino-telescope, 98x (7/10/2020)
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[Paul Alsing]

Nice photo, Jimi... have you personally observed this guy?

[Jimi Lowrey]

Yes 5 mornings in a row

[Mathias]

@Uwe,

really great sketches ! Most i like the sketch with the NLCs "Komet über dem Silbersee" . Fantastic !

Yesterday i was in the Rhön (Hohe Geba). For me it was extrem impressive in my 8x42 Binocular. I see similar details that you show in your 8x30 Sketch. My sketch i will do later.

Kind Regards
Mathias
http://www.freunde-der-nacht.net

[Jimi Lowrey]

I took this image at Pile of rocks ranch in the Davis Mountains in Far West Texas.

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[Paul Alsing]

Yes 5 mornings in a row

Somehow, I knew this was the case...

[Paul Alsing]

Jimi, us this an AM picture or a PM picture? I think that both are possible right now...

[Jimi Lowrey]

AM not PM till after the 15th

[Jimi Lowrey]

I image the Comet on a cloudy night last night. Processing by Babak Tafreshi!

Thanks Babak

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[oliva]

Hi,

Last Sunday I captured some photographs of the comet. Left you can see Neowise at dusk and right a stacked crop.

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While the camera was taking those images me and my children were observing the comet through a 10x50 binocular given a 6.5° field of view. The sketch below is what I could see.

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Observed with the naked eye the tail was larger than those 6.5° of the binoculars field of view. Location was a mountaintop near Frankfurt 900m asl. Date/Time was 12.07.2020 at 23 MESZ.

Clear Skies
Oliver

[Clear Skies]

[Raul Leon]

Hi here's my observation from Chiefland Florida 7/17/2020 :bright nucleus with a beautiful long tail chiefland neowise.jpg

[Uwe Glahn]

My last result without moon from 07/20/2020 through a 8x30 (Nikon EII) binocular under good transparency. The gas tail was visible around 15° long through the binocular. With naked eye the dust tail was visible around 13° and the gas tail was at the limit of detection.

sketch 8x30
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homepage with inverted and larger resoltion sketch

[Jimi Lowrey]

Fantastic Uwe. I chased the comet 19 morning and Nights. This is the comet from my house near Fort Davis.

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[morsie]

Jimi,
Very belated post here but I love the perspective the clouds give it! I was in the mountains of West Virginia on 7-18 at 4,000ft. Took this image comprised of seven 6 second exposures stacked with DeepSky Stacker and post processed. Camera was Canon 7D Mark II, 135mm at f/2, 800 ISO

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