Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) above the distant horizon clouds and valley fog on the morning of July 9, 2020, with the distant lights of the Wintering Hills Windfarm towers shining above the ground fog. The clouds have an interesting pattern of Helmholtz waves as well. The comet was easily visible to the naked eye. This is a stack of 7 exposures for the ground to smooth noise and one untracked exposure for the sky and cloudtops, all 3.2 seconds at f/2.2 with the 135mm lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1250. Shot from the wheatfield at home.
A panorama of the dawn sky to the northeast on July 9, 2020 with Comet NEOWISE at centre in Auriga in the twilight, and Venus and the Pleiades at right, with Venus just above Aldebaran in Taurus. Capella in Auriga is the bright star at top. Some wispy noctiliucent clouds are brightest at left of the lone tree. Luckily, the NLCs stayed away this morning allowing a clear sighting and shot of the comet! I shot this from “One Tree Hill” near home in southern Alberta. It was a very wet morning with lots of ground fog about including in the foreground. Moonlight from the waning gibbous Moon to the south behind the camera lights the foreground. This is a 7-segment panorama with the 50mm Sigma lens at f/4 for 10 seconds each at ISO 200 with the Canon 6D MkII and stitched with PTGui, which thoughtfully strips all the metadata from the image.
A single image of bright noctilucent clouds in the dawn sky over a prairie pond near home in southern Alberta on July 7, 2020, with Venus bright as a “morning star” at right above Aldebaran. Comet NEOWISE was in the scene but hidden behind dark weather clouds here. This is a 1-second exposure at f/2.8 and ISO 100 with the 50mm Sigma lens and Canon 6D MkII.
