A single shot of a selfie with me and the SharpStar 76mm telescope on the Sky-Watcher AZ5 mount setup for viewing Venus in the evening sky, May 17, 2020. With the Nikon D750 and Sigma 24mm lens.
A single shot of the SharpStar 76mm telescope on the Sky-Watcher AZ5 mount setup for viewing Venus in the evening sky, May 17, 2020.
The much heralded Comet SWAN (aka C/2020 F8) makes it appearance in my morning dawn sky at my northern latitude after putting on a show in the southern skies. However, it doesn’t look or photograph like much as it is low and lost in the early dawn twilight. It is the small fuzzy green spot left of centre. It will climb higher but dawn is also coming on sooner as we approach summer solstice. So this comet will never be well-placed for northern latitude observers. This is a stack of 4 x 30-second exposures at ISO 400 with the William Optics RedCat 51mm f/5 astrograph and Canon EOS Ra, giving a focal length of 250mm and a field 8° by 5°. The comet was in Triangulum at this time, but moving northward.
