Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rises above Silver Lake in suburban Philadelphia on July 7, 2020 at 4:13 a.m. EDT. This is almost 40 minutes into the start of astronomical twilight, from the light-polluted Philadelphia suburbs, with a nearly full moon in the sky. Sigma 105mm f/1.4, Nikon Z6, single 8-second exposuer at f/1.4 at ISO 100.
Comet NEOWISE peaks from behind the clouds as the sky brightens from dawn, the ISS flies over the comet, and Venus rises ar far right over Silver Lake at 4:33 a.m. EDT on July 11, 2020. Galaxy S10, 4.3mm lens, f/1.5, 8-second exposure, ISO 100.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rises above Silver Lake in suburban Philadelphia on the morning of July 12, 2020 at 4:30 a.m. EDT.<br /><br />Sigma 105mm f/1.4 working at f/1.4<br />Nikon Z6<br />Stack of eight 6-second exposures ISO 100 for the comet.<br />One 6-second exposure for foreground.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rises in the dawn twilight next to the constellation of Auriga over Silver Lake in Gibbsboro, NJ on July 12, 2020 at 4:30 a.m. EDT. Brilliant Venus is next to the Hyades at far lower right, with the Pleiades at upper right. <br /><br />Galaxy S10<br />4.3mm focal length<br />8 seconds exposure at ISO 100<br />Manual exposuer mode
The sunset lights up the clouds behind the East Point Lighthouse on the Delaware Bay on July 18, 2020.<br /><br />Galaxy S10 cell phone<br />4.3mm focal length lens<br />1/125th second exposure at ISO 50 at f/2.4
The sunset lights up the clouds behind the East Point Lighthouse on the Delaware Bay on July 18, 2020.<br /><br />Galaxy S10 cell phone<br />1.8mm focal length lens<br />1/120th second exposure at ISO 64 at f/2.2
Photographers and observers watch the sunset from East Point on July 18, 2020.<br /><br />Galaxy S10 cell phone<br />4.3mm focal length lens<br />1/70th second exposure at ISO 200 at f/2.4
Why watch boring reality when you can look at your phone?<br /><br />Galaxy S10 cell phone<br />4.3mm focal length lens<br />1/120th second exposure at ISO 250 at f/2.4
A photographer shoots sunset clouds and East Point Lighthouse.<br /><br />Galaxy S10 cell phone<br />1.8mm focal length lens<br />1/30th second exposure at ISO 160 at f/2.2
Photographers line up to shoot Comet NEOWISE over the East Point Lighthouse. About two dozen where there for the sunset, but about half left before it was dark enough to see the comet, which was unfortunately somewhat obscured by clouds this night.<br /><br /><br />Galaxy S10 cell phone<br />4.3mm focal length lens<br />30-second exposure at ISO 100 at f/1.5<br />Manual exposure on a tripod.
Astrophotography during the COVID-19 pandemic. <br /><br />Galaxy S10 cell phone<br />4.3mm focal length lens<br />15-second exposure at ISO 400 at f/1.5<br />Manual exposure on a fixed tripod.
Comet NEOWISE forms a triangle with Kappa and Iota Urase Majoris in the clouds above the Delaware Bay and East Point Lighthouse on July 18, 2020. I was hoping the comet would eventually set into the opening the clouds, but...<br /><br />Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S working at f/1.4<br />8-second exposure<br />ISO 400
It was not to be. An hour later the comet was lower, but the opening had filled in with clouds.<br /><br />Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S working at f/1.4<br />15-second exposure<br />ISO 800
The comet's thin blue ion tail and broader white dust tail are visible through the clouds in the previous image. <br /><br />Sigma Art 105mm f/1.4 working at f/1.4<br />Nikon Z6<br />Stack of 100 x 5-second exposures at ISO 800<br />iOptron SkyTracker
This is the Sigma 105mm f/1.4 and Nikon Z6 camera on the iOptron mount on a Gitzo tripod. My face mask is illuminated by the light of the LCD on the back of another camera.<br /><br />Galaxy S10<br />4.3mm lens<br />30-second exposure<br />f/1.5<br />ISO 800<br />Fixed tripod
Playing around with a red light and a long exposure.<br /><br />Galaxy S10<br />4.3mm lens<br />15-second exposure<br />f/1.5<br />ISO 800<br />Fixed tripod
Comet NEOWISE is visible under the bowl of the little dipper, with the East Point Lighthouse at lower right. This was a kind of throwaway shot just to see what the Galaxy S10 could do with a tracked exposure. I think it did pretty good for a cell phone, but if you enlarge it, you can see the stars are not that great. Amazingly, if you really know where to look, you can see galaxy M51 on the original full-resolution image. <br /><br />Galaxy S10<br />4.3mm lens<br />30-second exposure<br />f/1.5<br />ISO 800<br />Polar Aligned iOptron equatorial SkyTracker mount
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) sets into a heavy haze layer over the Delaware Bay on July 29, 2020.<br /><br />Sigma 105mm f/1.4<br />Nikon Z6<br />Stack of 146 x 10 seconds (24 minutes total exposure) <br />ISO 400<br />July 19, 2020 from 10:14 pm EDT to 10:49.
This is the same image as the previous one, but with extreme processing to bring out the ion and dust tails. Irregularities in the background are from vignetting, channel scaling, haze, sky gradients, and a government coverup for the missing data in the black spots along the bottom.<br /><br />Sigma 105mm f/1.4<br />Nikon Z6<br />Stack of 146 x 10 seconds (24 minutes total exposure) <br />ISO 400<br />July 19, 2020 from 10:14 pm EDT to 10:49.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) and the East Point Light House, July 19, 2020. Curiously, this night, when it was mostly clear, no one else was there to shoot the comet.<br /><br />Nikon Z6<br />Nikkor 50mm AI-S f/1.4 working at f/1.4<br />3-panel pano with 50mm lens for foreground, each panel 15 seconds at ISO 400<br />147 x 10-second exposure stack for the comet with the 105mm f/1.4<br />iOptron SkyTracker
