One In A Billion
What are the chances of catching a meteor and a comet in the exact same part of the sky at the same time? Not very high, I'm sure. But that's exactly what's happening here. In the very early morning hours of July 11, I managed to get a meteor with Comet Neowise in the same shot. I had no idea there was even a meteor, much less getting it in the shot a few days later when I sat down to sort these images. I had been shooting for over 30 minutes by this point, and had two cameras going, so the last thing I was paying any attention to were meteors. While it would have been cool to get the meteor crossing the comet's path, I'll take what I can get. Especially dealing with the notorious Northern Illinois humidity, made all the worse by the "breathing" of the corn. About this time, a ground fog began to form over the bean field directly to the right of this image (out of frame). Meteors can be very fickle things to photograph, and for this one to produce such a streak, it must have been a bright one.
This was one of the last mornings that Neowise would be visible, and it happened to be the brightest. At 3am, it was visible with the naked eye, albeit barely, if you knew where to look. The other bright object in the morning sky is Venus, with the Pleiades star cluster above it.
One In A Billion
What are the chances of catching a meteor and a comet in the exact same part of the sky at the same time? Not very high, I'm sure. But that's exactly what's happening here. In the very early morning hours of July 11, I managed to get a meteor with Comet Neowise in the same shot. I had no idea there was even a meteor, much less getting it in the shot a few days later when I sat down to sort these images. I had been shooting for over 30 minutes by this point, and had two cameras going, so the last thing I was paying any attention to were meteors. While it would have been cool to get the meteor crossing the comet's path, I'll take what I can get. Especially dealing with the notorious Northern Illinois humidity, made all the worse by the "breathing" of the corn. About this time, a ground fog began to form over the bean field directly to the right of this image (out of frame). Meteors can be very fickle things to photograph, and for this one to produce such a streak, it must have been a bright one.
This was one of the last mornings that Neowise would be visible, and it happened to be the brightest. At 3am, it was visible with the naked eye, albeit barely, if you knew where to look. The other bright object in the morning sky is Venus, with the Pleiades star cluster above it.