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Friday Night with Jupiter and Saturn

Continuing the series of images from this past Friday night were shots taken of Jupiter and Saturn.

July 25, 2020 Paul 1060 Views 0 Comments Moon

Its early crescent was already low when dark fully settled, trapped within my western treeline.

A small break from the comet and stars and planets.

I tried an observation only since the sky had some patches of openness towards the Northwest.

Of all the views I have seen myself so far of Neowise, the simple view from the Dob has been my favorite.

July 18, 2020 Paul 1447 Views 0 Comments Comets, DSLR

Between my first sighting of C/2020 F3 on the 13th of July to my second sighting on the 16th was a period of unusable cloud cover.

In hindsight, this may have been a nice long-exposure NightCap image.

A comet and two planets, not too bad for one night.

Tonight was the first time I ever saw a comet. I missed Halley’s as a kid in 1986.

The picture may fool a bit, as this scene of a descending Sun overshadowed by incoming Western clouds gives no indication of how hot the day was.