Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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Close approach (almost), color close up of Comet C2020 F3 NEOWISE, Dan Bartlett
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Close approach (almost), color close up of Comet C2020 F3 NEOWISE

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Close approach (almost), color close up of Comet C2020 F3 NEOWISE, Dan Bartlett
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Close approach (almost), color close up of Comet C2020 F3 NEOWISE

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Finally after 10 straight mornings of capturing this comet in the moonlit sky, the comet has become high enough to image over the mountains in dark skies. This is my fourth attempt in the evening with late day thunderstorms creating quite the fuss.

This image was a merger of four types of stretches in PixInsight with maskstretch lending the most vibrant of colors.

I ran three cameras on one rig - wide-field(SAMYANG135 +ZWO071), medium-field REDCAT51 + ZWO294)-THIS IMAGE!-and smallest field (RASA8 + ZWO 183mcP). Very surprised everything worked out , but a bear to center each scope/lense.

Hope to have the others processed shortly.

Thanks for peaking!

Dan

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Close approach (almost), color close up of Comet C2020 F3 NEOWISE, Dan Bartlett