We viewed this lovely comet from our front porch(!) in early-mid July 2020. The daily specifics are on the index page blog, and give a good idea how one might chronicle such an event. I always recommend taking notes contemporaneously, as you will forget. The details for this photograph are as follows:

Comet NEOWISE, Auriga rising just above comet, Venus in the Hyades to the right, Pleiades above. Foreground is west of Taos, NM on the mesa, large double mountain is Taos Mountain, the sacred mountain of the Pueblo people. More distant pointed Wheeler Peak (tallest in NM) to the left of Taos Mountain. Taken on a fixed tripod from our front porch. (Nikon 5100, Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 ED lens at f/4, ISO 3200, 15 seconds, 04:35 MDT, 07/10/2020)

Of special note is how I have darkened up the photograph for more drama. It is the same photograph (slightly different crop, so as to include the star cluster) as the logo image that is on the top of every page.

 

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