Saturday, July 11, 2020

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

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Stack of 20 x 6s exposures at ISO 6400 and f/4.0 with F 70mm
A faint ion tail is just visible above the dust tail.
The foreground was from a single image

This inverted monochrome rendering of the image clearly reveals the ion tail above the dust tail.

Postive, stretched, monochrome rendering also reveals the ion tail

Animation revealing the ion tail


Animation of the movement of the sky with the comet over a 2m 12s period

Steve Wainwright

The following photos were taken with a Nikon D5100 DSLR fitted with a 70 to 300mm lens set at 70mm. The exposures were around 4 seconds at f/4 with an ISO setting of 2000.




Nicola Mackin

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