Hi Nick,

Really good movie from this morning. Unfortunately there wasn’t a clear spell in the right part of the sky for me even though I’m only about 15 miles south of your location.

I stacked 14 of yesterday’s desaturated images and it shows well the bifurcated tail near the comet’s head.

Peter

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From: Nick James
Sent: 07 July 2020 07:44
To: baa-comet@simplelists.com
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] 2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

Richard,

So sorry that you haven't been able to see it yet. I was incredibly

lucky to get a chance again this morning through a narrow clear slot. It

was a really impressive sight in binoculars as it rose and was easy

naked eye. We haven't seen a comet like this in the UK sincce C/2006 P1

in January 2007. The Moon isn't really a problem since the dawn sky is

so bright anyway.

I hope you get a chance to see it soon. It is definitely worth setting

the alarm and losing a bit of sleep.

I put together this timelapse of it rising this morning:

http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2020/2020f3_20200707_ndj.mp4

It consists of 232x5s exposures playing at 25 fps from 01:17 - 01:40 UT

taken with a Canon EOS550D, 200mm, f/2.8L lens.

Nick.

On 07/07/2020 03:50, Richard Miles - rmiles.btee at btinternet.com (via

baa-comet list) wrote:

> Nick,

>

> Thanks for signalling this observing opportunity.

>

> It has been clear overhead and down to about 5-10 degrees above my

> northern horizon here in North Dorset.

> Had a great view of Venus 2 degrees above horizon in azimuth 64 degrees

> but the clouds refused to budge from 30 degrees azimuth.

>

> As it was, the nearly full Moon was lighting up ths sky so the view

> would have been washed out a fair amount.

>

> Looks like the weather might play ball on Friday night (July 10/11) when

> the comet will be about 4 degrees higher and the sky will be a lot

> darker with a much less bright Moon around.

>

> Fingers crossed for next time,

> Richard Miles

>

>

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