Neowise Comet

A post from the wee hours of July 14th 2020:

I just returned home from photographing the Neowise comet. This is a long-period comet that was just discovered on March 27th of this year. If you don’t get a chance to see it, it will come back—in approximately 6,766 years.

This was taken over Grand Traverse Bay, West Arm, north of Traverse City, Michigan—near the end of Old Mission Peninsula.

Today's virtual county fair sale feature is "The Big Dipper, Comet Neowise, and Minnesota Lake"

Photographed on the evening of July 21, 2020.

The celestial highlights will really shine on glossy brushed aluminum!

NEOWISE – WE HAVE A VISITOR

After a week of frantic searching, glorious but impeding sunsets, and scouring every weather and atmospheric resource imaginable, the conditions were right and I finally was able to see Comet NEOWISE in the skies above Everglades National Park. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything quite like this. Seeing a natural phenomenon that only occurs once every 6800 years and setting eyes on an…

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This is my last posting for the comet 2020 F3 NEOWISE

This has been a great target. You will still be able to see the comet through the rest of the month, but it will begin to fade quickly. It will not return for another 6800+ years, so this is truly a once in a lifetime visible experience. Dont miss it. If you look closely right above the tail in a different angle you can see the Ion trail. The ion trail is a strait line and points directly away from the sun. The tail of the comet is affected by the solar wind and actually is comprised of dust particles and thus has mass and behaves differently.

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うわさのネオワイズ彗星ですね。

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