Observation by Clive Nanson: Comet NEOWISE

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Clive Nanson

Observer

Clive Nanson

Observed

2020 Jul 10 - 22:45

Uploaded

2020 Jul 11 - 15:26

Objects

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

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Constellation

Auriga

Field centre

RA: 06^h41^m
Dec: +42°27'
Position angle: +10°44'

Field size

2°18' × 2°40'

Equipment

Canon EOS 200D
Canon EF 200mm F2.8 USM

Exposure

20 x 0.8 sec, F3.5, ISO 800

Location

North West Leicestershire

Target name

Comet NEOWISE

Title

Comet NEOWISE

About this image

First spotted the comet using binoculars at around 23:00 and was able to image the comet from the pavement in front of my house. Air traffic has certainly increased, out of the 25 images I managed to take, 5 were photo-bombed by planes taking off or going into East Midland Airport. By 00:15, the comet was clearly visible to the naked eye.

PIPP was used to carry out the RAW file processing, rough alignment and initial cropping. The stars and then the comet alignment and the final processing was carried out using IRIS. The cropped image FOV is 2.2 x 2.5 degrees.

Files associated with this observation

neowise.jpg (482.4 kB)

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