Comet Neowise F3
in the morning sky
July 3, 2020

 
 This
            bright comet is at perihelion today and has for the first time
            emerged from behind the Sun into the morning sky. Battling monsoon
            clouds until the very end, I was able to shoot the comet in a
            narrow clearing in the cloud deck this morning, with a twilight
            so bright I could only go 0.5 seconds maximum without over exposure.
            Yet here is the zero magnitude comet visible against the tremendous
            sky glow only a few degrees over the north eastern horizon. We
            are a week away from the peak altitude in the morning before
            it goes into the evening sky and will fade very fast.


            
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            here for a larger 1400 sized image


            
Field here
            is about 3 x2 degrees


Lens:  Meade 622 Cometracker Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform:  Meade LDX5
Camera: Canon XTI
Exposure:  0.5 seconds  (!)
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  4/10, Transparency 3/10
Outside Temperature:  55F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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