Comet NEOWISE

Comet NEOWISE, photo courtesy of NASA.

Comet NEOWISE has been pretty easily visible over the past 10 days in Connecticut, whenever the weather has cooperated. It's now appearing in the evenings, around 10:00 PM, in the northwest sky between the Big Dipper and the horizon. The comet was visible to the naked eye and beautiful through binoculars a few days ago, but was noticeably smaller and fainter last night, so it may be on the way out after a brief show. This has been the first really good comet viewable from the Northern Hemisphere in quite a long time; the last was Hale-Bopp in 1997. The photo above is the official NASA image, my own attempts at cell phone and point-n-shoot astrophotography were disappointing.

Probably Comet NEOWISE from my driveway? July 2020.