Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Neowise


Spent a cool 30 minuted last night observing comet Neowise. You can see it (in the Northern Hemisphere) by looking for the "Big Dipper" and then tracking slightly below and to the left of that constellation (on a North Western bearing). It's visible with the naked eye but very faint in high light pollution areas (like mine) however if you use binoculars then it's pretty clear and you can clearly see the tail streaming out from behind the comet itself. Being Summer (UK) though you need to stay up pretty late, it wasn't dark enough for us until around 11pm since the setting sun illuminates the sky in the required direction for quite some time even though it's dark elsewhere.

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