Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
Taken in Lowestoft, UK, on 13 July 2020, at 03.09 am bst.
Celestron NexStar 6se SCT & ZWO asi224mc.
AVI video stacked in Autostakkert 2. Touched-up in Registax (as wavelets), & PS CC.
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers using the NEOWISE space telescope. At that time, it was a 10th-magnitude comet, located 2 AU (300 million km; 190 million mi) away from the Sun and 1.7 AU (250 million km; 160 million mi) away from Earth.
By July 2020, it was bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. For observers in the northern hemisphere, in the morning, the comet appears low above the north-eastern horizon, below Capella. In the evening, the comet can be seen in the north-western sky. In the second half of July 2020, Comet NEOWISE will appear to pass through the constellation of Ursa Major, below the asterism of the Big Dipper (The Plough).
The comet is one of the brightest visible to observers in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. Under dark skies, it can be clearly seen with the naked eye. It is supposed to remain visible to the naked eye throughout most of July 2020.
Source: Wikipedia
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
Taken in Lowestoft, UK, on 13 July 2020, at 03.09 am bst.
Celestron NexStar 6se SCT & ZWO asi224mc.
AVI video stacked in Autostakkert 2. Touched-up in Registax (as wavelets), & PS CC.
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers using the NEOWISE space telescope. At that time, it was a 10th-magnitude comet, located 2 AU (300 million km; 190 million mi) away from the Sun and 1.7 AU (250 million km; 160 million mi) away from Earth.
By July 2020, it was bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. For observers in the northern hemisphere, in the morning, the comet appears low above the north-eastern horizon, below Capella. In the evening, the comet can be seen in the north-western sky. In the second half of July 2020, Comet NEOWISE will appear to pass through the constellation of Ursa Major, below the asterism of the Big Dipper (The Plough).
The comet is one of the brightest visible to observers in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. Under dark skies, it can be clearly seen with the naked eye. It is supposed to remain visible to the naked eye throughout most of July 2020.
Source: Wikipedia