{"id":1123,"date":"2020-07-19T01:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T05:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2020-07-19T01:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T05:32:04","slug":"comet-neowise-from-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"Comet NEOWISE from Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Comet NEOWISE setting over Port Jefferson harbor\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iWeCpQIf2M8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Comet NEOWISE from the harbor at Port Jefferson, Long Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Comet NEOWISE did not, alas, brighten into anything that could be mistaken as a Great Comet. That said, it&#8217;s probably been as good as anything we&#8217;ve seen since Comet Hale-Bopp back in 1997, which I saw easily from downtown Toronto. This week it&#8217;s been visible, with a bit of effort, from moderately dark locations, and (much) easier to photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After my first attempt earlier in the week, I followed up with a wider time-lapse sequence from the harbor at Port Jefferson, and then images at 200mm this evening. From a darker location I finally got a glimpse of the comet with the naked eye! The image below is a composite median filtered (using the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/starryskystacker\/home\">Starry Sky Stacker<\/a>) from 13 frames, shot with an iOptron SkyTracker at ISO 1600, f\/4.0, 20s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CometNEOWISE-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CometNEOWISE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CometNEOWISE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CometNEOWISE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CometNEOWISE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CometNEOWISE-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CometNEOWISE.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Comet NEOWISE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet NEOWISE from the harbor at Port Jefferson, Long Island Comet NEOWISE did not, alas, brighten into anything that could be mistaken as a Great Comet. That said, it&#8217;s probably been as good as anything we&#8217;ve seen since Comet Hale-Bopp &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=1123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astrophotography","tag-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}