Observation by Tim Haymes: Comet NEOWISE photomerge

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Tim Haymes

Observer

Tim Haymes

Observed

2020 Jul 19 - 21:30

Uploaded

2020 Jul 20 - 14:30

Objects

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

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Constellation

Ursa Major

Field centre

RA: 09^h38^m
Dec: +51°16'
Position angle: +121°49'

Field size

10° × 4°

Equipment

200mm F2.8 lens
Canon 70D
EQ mount
Merged images

Exposure

Stacks of 15sec at 400-iso

Location

Steeple Aston

Target name

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

Title

Comet NEOWISE photomerge

About this image

Stacked frames, merged to show the length of ion tail which is about 7 degress. Head is green, dust tail is creamy (yellow) in the un-stretched images, and the ion tail blue. Not the best rendering, but shows some of the fainter details invisible to the eye in good transparency. A great comet !

Files associated with this observation

Neowise_tail_small.jpg (1.1 MB)

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Neil Morrison, Jeremy Shears, Graham Winstanley, Andy Wilson, Peter Carson

Comments

Neil Morrison, 2020 Jul 20 - 15:53 UTC

Great image Tim . The ion tail shows up well. A great Comet pity it is so much in the twilight and then drops into the haze of the Horizon.

Nick James, 2020 Jul 20 - 20:20 UTC

Tim - Great image.

Neil - Comets like this are generally at their best just after perihelion so they are nearly always low in the twilight or murk. Hale-Bopp was rather an exception but it was a very odd comet.

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