I've just discovered there's a new comet messing around in space. It's called Neowise and we can see it from Earth, in the sky, right now.

How come I've not heard about this until now?

Here is my artist's impression of it:

If you have a clear Northern horizon you can see the Comet right now, just been looking, visible with the naked eye, too low for me to get a tripod shot but it is the brightest comet I have ever seen.

Couple of Comet pics, very low on horizon through a gap in the trees with 55mm lens, it will get higher in the sky as the week goes on so hopefully if the weather stays good I will try with a proper mount and a longer lens.
I seem to have a very noisy CCD so the dots are not stars.

God damnit, I had a lovely clear sky last night and I didn't bother to go out and look.

I haven't seen a good comet since Hale-Bopp.

I tried to have a look but it was cloudy.

It's the best one that I have seen and I go back to Kahoutek in 1973.
Will have a go with a bigger lens set up tonight, or I will try but you know it will be cloudy for the rest of the week.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

I tried to have a look but it was cloudy.

I've just seen the comet! With my 10x50 binoculars, by drawing a line from delta to beta Ursa Majoris and following it down towards the horizon.

The tail appears about 1½-2 degrees long and streams just to the east of straight up.

I can just about see it with the naked eye once I've found it in the binoculars.

Fangirl Three wrote:

I've just seen the comet! With my 10x50 binoculars, by drawing a line from delta to beta Ursa Majoris and following it down towards the horizon.

The tail appears about 1½-2 degrees long and streams just to the east of straight up.

I can just about see it with the naked eye once I've found it in the binoculars.

It's the second best comet I've seen - Halley was much fainter if I really saw it at all, and Hale-Bopp was miles better, that looked like a comet to the naked eye with much less effort.

Pics from Friday night, much fainter than a few days ago.

There's a mega-comet on its way.

Warning, footage has been speeded-up.

I've just heard there's a green comet in the sky.

And we can see it!

What do get if you cross an egg with a meteor?

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