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For those at northerly latitudes, Comet NEOWISE up in the evening now, too
- thewebcount 6y agoFor some reason the charts showing when and where to see it are missing from the page for me. This is with no ad blockers installed, oddly enough. . I'm at 33° N., so I'll check out the morning sky for now, but would like to get more detail about when to see it.
- _Microft 6y agoTry wolframalpha.com, enter e.g. "Comet NEOWISE Berlin, 4a.m." (no quotes, replace Berlin with your location and the time with the time you want to watch) and scroll down until you see an image of the sky with the position of the comet on it. Good luck and enjoy!
- tambeb 6y agoI found it using Star Walk 2 on Android. Got my first good look this morning in northern NJ (USA). Snapped a photo with my Pixel 4. Not as good as others you'll see online but not too bad either after a little bit of Photoshop. https://photos.app.goo.gl/cgizZeykr536eJ7w5 https://photos.app.goo.gl/cgizZeykr536eJ7w5
- exhilaration 6y agoAmazing picture! Was this before sunset or sunrise?
- tambeb 6y agoIt was before sunrise this morning, 7/12, at 4:34a with sunrise happening at 5:36a. (The 5:06a timestamp shown with the link is from the Photoshop edit.) I actually almost missed it. This posted photo was the first one I took and my Pixel happily did it in astrophotography mode. But the sky was brightening fast and astrophotography stopped triggering. I took a few more with Night Sight but they weren't as good.
- dfee 6y agoI followed earthsky for sometime, and then stopped. Now I’ve been following Universe Today. The author is intelligent, but something is lacking - and I’m not sure what. Can others provide a list of review of RSS worthy space blogs?
- tunap 6y agoI like Portaltotheuniverse.org's rss feed. Always something interesting to read. https://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/rss/all https://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/rss/all
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- galacticaactual 6y agoCentauri Dreams
- 8bitsrule 6y agoThe location of'neowise' is shown in Stellarium today (near the Moon) for those using it.
- pacaro 6y agoI've always been a fan of Heavens-Above for this kind of thing... https://www.heavens-above.com/SkyChart.aspx?lat=47.6&lng=-122.2&loc=HN&alt=0&tz=PST https://www.heavens-above.com/SkyChart.aspx?lat=47.6&lng=-12... https://www.heavens-above.com/comet.aspx?cid=C%2F2020%20F3&lat=47.6&lng=-122.2&loc=HN&alt=0&tz=PST https://www.heavens-above.com/comet.aspx?cid=C%2F2020%20F3&l...
- jcun4128 6y agoHypothetically... if you wanted to launch a rocket from the ground and catch this thing... not gonna happen?
- dnautics 6y agono, almost certainly not enough delta-v.
- nwallin 6y agoIt has a retrograde orbit, and its orbit is highly inclined as well. You would have to fight against the Earth's orbit to catch up to it, and would have negligible opportunities for gravitational assists. Every probe to the outer solar system has leveraged multiple gravitational assists. These would be off the table. Basically your only options is building a super monster rocket and force your way to it based entirely on pure thrust. The rendezvous maneuver would be a monster as well. I'm not saying it's impossible, but you're probably looking at assembling something in orbit if you really want to go visit the thing.
- jcun4128 6y agoThanks for the info, I figured as much but good to know more details. "Alright guys, you have the entire world's money, let's do it".
- js2 6y agoI was a fourteen year-old astronomy geek for Halley's Comet in 1986. What a complete dud it turned out to be. This comet is amazing. Get out and see it while you can! Here’s a picture of it this morning in Raleigh, NC (not my picture): https://i.imgur.com/qKXjHnU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qKXjHnU.jpg https://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/hpsv6f/comet_c2020_f3_neowise_bracketed_by_the_raleigh/ https://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/hpsv6f/comet_c2020...
- jjav 6y agoI remember enjoying watching Halley's Comet as a young astronomy geek kid, seeing it with just my eyes (didn't own a camera or telescope). I can't see neowise with my eyes at all. I've taken really nice photos of it, but that's with a 500mm lens on an equatorial mount and long exposures. So IIRC Halley was a much better show.
- blinding-streak 6y agoGood intentions here but I think this is a little misleading. That photo almost certainly is a long exposure shot that enhances the visibility of the comet. That same poster also posted this image, which is what it looks like to the naked eye (i.e. it barely registers): https://i.imgur.com/2Il4yJN.jpg https://i.imgur.com/2Il4yJN.jpg I too remember Halley's comet viewing -- my dad was super excited to see it. It was underwhelming. Comet Hale–Bopp though, in 1995, was awesome.
- flak48 6y agoThat might have to do something with the massive amount of light pollution in the foreground?
- echelon 6y agoComet Hale-Bopp was one of the most magical sights I've ever witnessed. You could see the long, majestic trail with your own eyes, entirely unaided. No binoculars, telescope, or long exposure needed. It was huge, and it stayed with us for awhile. Hale-Bopp felt like a celestial dragon or an ethereal god that came to visit. I spent hours outside looking at it. It was mesmerizing. NEOWISE is pitiful in contrast. I'm hoping I get to see another comet like Hale-Bopp in my lifetime. It made me understand why ancient societies ascribe such meaning to astronomical events. The other remarkable space event in my life was the total solar eclipse a few years back. The entire world changed for a moment, and the corona was like a glittering chromatic jewel suspended in the sky. I will travel wherever the next total solar eclipse takes me - they're not to be missed.
- dnautics 6y agoArticle claims it's binocs only, but I have seen it with the naked eye two mornings in a row (09 and 10 July).
- tambeb 6y agoAlready commented with a photo below, but wanted to say I also saw it just fine with naked eye this past morning.
- contravariant 6y agoI could see it with the naked eye in a severely light polluted area but this was after confirming its location with binoculars, I'm not confident I would have found it otherwise.
- aaron695 6y agoI don't get why every Starlink launch, every comet, every ISS or GPS flare I have to download another app / spend ages trying to track down how to see it. Isn't there like a Monkey script I can grab to add to an app that people can just post? I do guess it creates some sense of adventure having to seek it out.
- BooneJS 6y agoMy daughter and I found a hill outside of the city. We could barely make out a smudge in the sky with bare eyes, but binocs and dSLR managed to capture it. Fun!
- neilwilson 6y agoSaw it over the rooftops from my bedroom window at the weekend. Wonderful. Topped a great week. All the main planets were strung across the early morning sky like Christmas lights.
- usr1106 6y agoNortherly latitudes is relative. Here at over 61 deg N it does hardly get dark these days. So sky watching is still on hold for a couple of months.
- Faaak 6y agoFor those curious about the first image [0] and it's caption ("Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured Comet NEOWISE on July 7, 2020, along with the International Space Station (dashed line)") The dashed line is not the ISS but a plane. The ISS doesn't blink ;-) [0]: https://earthsky.org/upl/2020/07/Gianluca-Masi-comet-NEOWISE-Rome-Italy-7-7-2020-e1594141387754.jpg https://earthsky.org/upl/2020/07/Gianluca-Masi-comet-NEOWISE...
- sdflhasjd 6y agoThe dashed line may be an artefact of how such a long exposure is captured - where multiple shorter exposures are taken and stacked on top of each other.
- FraKtus 6y agoIn Belgium, because of the light pollution, it's impossible to see it with the naked eye. I could, however, catch a short time-lapse of it with my camera: https://youtu.be/tq_CEIFzh70 https://youtu.be/tq_CEIFzh70 Something I don't get is that the comet will come closer to earth in the next days; however, the astronomy sites say it will lose intensity. How can that be possible?
- kwoff 6y agoThe comet is getting farther away from the sun.
- tilt_error 6y agoNortherly latitudes? The sun doesn’t set so how am I supposed to see this?