Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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Still Beautiful Comet NEOWISE Drifts by Clusters M 53 and NGC5053, Dan Bartlett
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Still Beautiful Comet NEOWISE Drifts by Clusters M 53 and NGC5053

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Still Beautiful Comet NEOWISE Drifts by Clusters M 53 and NGC5053, Dan Bartlett
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Still Beautiful Comet NEOWISE Drifts by Clusters M 53 and NGC5053

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For two nights, Aug5 & 6, I Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE was in the same field as globular clusters M 53 and NGC 5053. And in fact, on the 6th, the comet covered NGC 5053 with its tail. The above image is from that night using the RASA 8 and a ZWO 071mcP.

Moon arose shortly after 10 p.m. where I could only salvage 17 x 180 second exposures.

Processed in PixInsight and still quite colorful.

Animations on my website: https://thelonelyastronomer.com

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Still Beautiful Comet NEOWISE Drifts by Clusters M 53 and NGC5053, Dan Bartlett