Comet C/2020 F3 Nepwise from South Norfolk - 10 July 2020

[geoflewis]

I posted some initial jpegs from my outing with Neowise last night, but here are the finished stacked, cropped and processed images. The images were captured between 10:30pm and 11pm on 10 July, from close to Tacolneston Mast in South Norfolk. They are all from 2s sub exposures at ISO1600 using my camera tripod mounted Nikon D90 DSLR. The 1st was using a Nikon 18-200 zoom (at 200mm). the other 2 were taken through a cheap 62/520 Revelation Astro achromatic scope attached to the D90. Each stack comprises between 11-16 x 2s sub images, manually aligned on the comet nucleus, then cropped and post processed using ImagesPlus software.

The comet was easily naked eye by 11pm, but unfortunately clouds moved in very soon after that, so I headed home. I later saw the comet from my back garden seen between trees and my neighbour's house in a darker sky just after 2am this morning. The tail was between 4-5 degrees long and I estimate the comet at mag 2 or brighter; a very easy naked eye object.

 

[Pete Presland]

Lovely captures.

[astroman001]

Some great images Geoff.

[TerryMcK]

Fabulous images Geof. 

[geoflewis]

8 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

Lovely captures.

4 hours ago, astroman001 said:

Some great images Geoff.

4 hours ago, TerryMcK said:

Fabulous images Geof. 

Pete, Peter and Terry, thank you all very much.

[Guest]

Stunning images Geof, love them 😍

[geoflewis]

8 minutes ago, Chris Wright said:

Stunning images Geof, love them 😍

Thank you Chris. Today I've seen some superb images that show a 2nd blue ion tail to the left of the main dust tail. I would love to capture that, but it requires longer exposures and without being able to guide (on camera tripod), I don't think it will work for me, but I may give it a try just to see what is possible.