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 / 1044UT Click 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…
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) – 6 July 2020, 3:51AM MST / 1051UT Click 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,…
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) – 5 July 2020, 4:09AM MST / 1109UT Click 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…