Comet NEOWISE_DSC4432-Pano
5-frame pano - Best viewed large.
No matter what else you may hear, this comet is almost impossible to see with the unaided eye. Even after locating it with binoculars (highly recommended) and knowing exactly where in the sky to look, it was so faint it tended to drift in and out of my visual perception. While making this image, I had to point the camera to an area of the sky where I thought it might be. Only after looking at the image on the camera's view screen was I able to verify I had actually captured it.
From Wikipedia:
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet 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 away from the Sun and 1.7 AU away from Earth.
Orbital period: 6,766 years
Discovered: March 27, 2020
Observation arc: 70 days
Dimensions: ~5 km
Argument of periapsis: 37.28°
Orbital Inclination: 128.93°
Comet NEOWISE_DSC4432-Pano
5-frame pano - Best viewed large.
No matter what else you may hear, this comet is almost impossible to see with the unaided eye. Even after locating it with binoculars (highly recommended) and knowing exactly where in the sky to look, it was so faint it tended to drift in and out of my visual perception. While making this image, I had to point the camera to an area of the sky where I thought it might be. Only after looking at the image on the camera's view screen was I able to verify I had actually captured it.
From Wikipedia:
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet 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 away from the Sun and 1.7 AU away from Earth.
Orbital period: 6,766 years
Discovered: March 27, 2020
Observation arc: 70 days
Dimensions: ~5 km
Argument of periapsis: 37.28°
Orbital Inclination: 128.93°