Observation by Grant Privett: C2020 F3 NEOWISE

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Grant Privett

Observer

Grant Privett

Observed

2020 Jul 30 - 22:30

Uploaded

2020 Jul 30 - 23:52

Objects

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

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Constellation

Canes Venatici

Field centre

RA: 12^h38^m
Dec: +31°19'
Position angle: +39°31'

Field size

7°02' × 8°16'

Equipment

Canon M3
Canon 50mm F1.8
Tripod

Exposure

4s x100 @3200ISO

Location

Cranborne Chase

Target name

C2020 F3 NEOWISE

Title

C2020 F3 NEOWISE

About this image

Gibbous moons in the sky do mess up the imaging of dim extended objects as all deep sky observer* know. So extracting NEOWISE from the background glow wasn't easy tonight. The ion tail and dust tail are clearly seen but so too is some dim haze. Pushing the contrast extended both tails quite a lot but this is the truer representation. Again, the coma was very green.

The galaxy at the top of the tail is NGC4631.

*You know you are a deep sky observer when you consider Jupiter to be light pollution

Files associated with this observation

C2020 F3 NEOWISE 20200730 Privett.jpg (800.5 kB)

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Ray Emery, Jeremy Shears, Peter Carson

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