Sunday, July 19, 2020

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) Canon Ra Bethel, New York

We are hit by tons of material every day, but it is all dust.

We are all walking around with comet dust in our hair.

- Don Yeomans

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) became one of the brightest comets visible in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. On July 17, 2020, it was bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, even from moderately light-polluted locations.

This image was taken in Bethel, New York using the Canon EOS Ra with a 200mm f/2.8 lens. The photograph clearly shows the comet’s bright nucleus and its beautiful dual tail structure — the wider dust tail and the thinner, straighter ion tail extending upward across the frame.