Updated: Comet Neowise

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I really haven’t been doing much detecting for the past several weeks - the weather in NW Ohio has been ridiculously hot and dry, making the ground like concrete even if you wanted to brave the heat.

The bright side of no rain is no clouds! So instead of detecting, I’ve been occupying my time with one of my previous hobbies, astronomy. Comet Neowise is currently putting on a nice show, so I blew the dust off of my “ancient” DSLR to take a few pictures! The shots below were taken facing northeast about an hour before sunrise on July 13, and exposed for about 3 to 4 seconds each.

Anyway, the comet has moved into the evening sky now, and should be easily visible if you have a clear view of your northwestern horizon about an hour after sunset. It’s even more impressive if you have access to some decent binoculars.

I highly recommend checking it out - it’s the brightest comet visible from the northern hemisphere in over 20 years!
 

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Neat !!!! Hard to see close enough to the horizon around my property with all the trees around :lol: .....but I can see other stars/planets pretty good on a clear night with there not being as much light pollution like they have in city areas.
 
KT and the Queen went out last night and found a suitable viewing spot, but immediately after sundown realised the summer stagnant air and significant atmospheric dust in the west killed our chance to see it as it was too low on the horizon and set in the west behind that haze. We did see a nice view of Jupiter however! Just before the mosquitos swarmed us! :laughing::laughing:
 
thanks for sharing!!!

Awesome pics! Was hoping to see that before it's gone for another 6,000+ years :laughing: thanks for sharing!

Very nice shots, thanks!

Neat !!!! Hard to see close enough to the horizon around my property with all the trees around :lol: .....but I can see other stars/planets pretty good on a clear night with there not being as much light pollution like they have in city areas.

Thanks guys! Glad you enjoyed the shots! I got a chance to get out and take some more shots last night...it’s a pretty easy sight in the northwestern evening sky now, by about 10:30-10:45pm. I was surprised how high above the horizon it turned out to be...well above the surrounding rooftops.

KT and the Queen went out last night and found a suitable viewing spot, but immediately after sundown realised the summer stagnant air and significant atmospheric dust in the west killed our chance to see it as it was too low on the horizon and set in the west behind that haze. We did see a nice view of Jupiter however! Just before the mosquitos swarmed us! :laughing::laughing:

Sorry you missed it when the Royal Fam made an attempt the other night...hopefully you’ll have a chance again with better viewing conditions. But all was not lost - at least you were able to gaze upon the King of the Planets :D
 
I went out to look for Comet Neowise for the first time in the evening sky last night (Friday), and I was amazed to see how easy it was to see once it got dark! I was expecting it to be fairly close to the horizon, but instead the comet flowed well above he surrounding trees and rooftops. It was my youngest daughter’s birthday, so she was thrilled to have the opportunity to see her “birthday comet”...and even more ecstatic to have an extra excuse to stay up hours past bedtime :lol: The first shot shows her holding hands with Big Sister while she points out the comet. She got to see a couple of meteors too, and the ISS even made an appearance! The two green blips in the second pic are actually a pair of Perseid meteors that popped up during the 6 second exposure...and the bold yellowish-white line in the fourth pic is the ISS streaming across the sky with the comet a bit harder to see near the bottom to the left of the tree.
 

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Good to see that you are making some family memories with your daughter's. Time flies so fast and before long they will be grown up. I tried looking for the comet from the roof of the building that I work ln. I was out too early there was still red in the sky. Nice picks thanks for sharing them.
 
KT and the Queen braved the mosquitos for a second night and we finally did see it, through binoculars a bit after 9:30 Kingdom time, and yes it was a bit higher in the sky than we first expected. Using the better set of binocs, mounted on a tripod, we also saw some of the moons of Jupiter!
 
Thanks for sharing! I get up at 4AM, and thought it was Venus I was seeing out my window during that 7/13 time period, but it seems this may have been what I was seeing.

Awesome pics!
 
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