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Comet Neowise

With the talk about the new comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinan-Atlas) possibly outshining 1997's Hale Bopp in October 2024, my attention turned to Comet Neowise (C/2020 F3), that fabulous comet that graced our skies in July 2020.

For this image I traveled to the sacred Lakota mountain of Bear Butte in Sturgis, SD, hoping that the comet would reflect in Bear Butte Lake and it did!!

Adding a little sparkle, the marshes were light-painted by a passing car.

As for the new comet, we will just have to wait and see if it survives its trip around the sun. At Badlands Observatory, we're waiting for the magnitude to increase a bit before turning our 26"/f4.8 Newtonian Reflector telescope on it for a first look.

This is a five panel pano taken with a Nikon D850 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens turned portrait style.

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Uploaded on July 25, 2023
Taken on July 17, 2020