Amateur Astronomy Blog | Jeremy Perez
Sketch of C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) – 18 July 2020 Click for larger version. Such a spectacular view. Both naked eye and through binoculars. Even though it hasn’t qualified for ‘great’ comet status, it is large and a beautiful ornament to the night…
The last ten days have been a flurry of comet adventures. Following are images from those days and finishing up with a naked eye sketch from last night. It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of those. The comet became more…
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) – 7 July 2020, 3:44AM MST / 1044UTClick for larger version. There were no nearby clouds to contend with this morning and that permitted the view I was after with Merriam Crater. On any given day that old cinder…
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) – 6 July 2020, 3:51AM MST / 1051UTClick for larger version. Clouds put a really short timer on capturing comet-rise this morning. Between that and spending 10 minutes carefully maneuvering myself back out of a sketchy, unscouted road, I…
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) – 5 July 2020, 4:09AM MST / 1109UTClick for larger version. I have a strong dislike of early mornings—but so worth it today because wow is that comet beautiful! C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) I was at Sunset Crater by 4AM.…
Before the bad weather rolled in, I drove out to Cinder Hills Overlook at Sunset Crater to get some dark sky shots of the comet. The tail was not as prominent as it was from home the night before. After checking out…
Venus and Mercury have been sharing space in the evening sky recently. This shot was taken along Route 66, east of Flagstaff. Venus-Mercury Conjunction – 8 January 2015 – 6:01PM (9 January 2015 – 0101 UT) I haven’t made a trip to…
I drove out to Sunset Crater tonight to get a shot of an Iridium Flare, and brought my equatorial mount with me to follow up with some images of Comet Jacques. Its beautiful turquoise coma was drifting through the Cassiopeia Milky Way…
C/2012 S1 (ISON)
C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)