All The Wiser...

There are four images in this post. The C/2020 F3 (Neowise) or Comet Neowise was discovered just in March 2020. Last week, we missed the opportunity to get a view of it in the early morning hours and really life has been quite busy (as usual). We made a concerted effort to try and find the comet this weekend and were successful on the second attempt! Seeing this in person is more gratifying than any pictures, but here are several that I captured. I think looking for it closer to sunset probably will create a more prominent image. Instead of just taking a close-up image of the comet itself, my preference is to provide some context and here is a 15-second exposure with the comet towards the upper right. Having taken some previous images of the dark night skies, and a fair number of my images being captured at night, I have been reviewing with some interest the genre of astrophotography. There is a steep learning curve with the techniques to truly get a lot of detail clear a