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Claire Shickora
Lords Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
07/25/2020
10:25 pm

Equipment Details:

Canon EOS 6D Mark II - Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L ISII USM

Post-processing Details:

Cropped and adjusted exposure, tone, and temperature in Lightroom

Image Details:

After two hours, a zillion mosquito bites, and intermittent clouds, I got lucky... Just below the Big Dipper in the Constellation Ursa Major (The Big Bear) the Comet Neowise sinks into the hazy, light-polluted horizon over Route 739 in Lords Valley, Pike County, Pennsylvania. At the time of this shot (10:25 pm on July 25, 2020) Neowise was 21 degrees above the horizon, had a magnitude of 4.71 (the brighter the object, the lower the number of magnitude assigned - the dimmest object visible with the naked eye is typically magnitude 6.5), and was approximately .71 Astronomical Units from the earth (an AU is approximately 93 million miles and approximately 8 light-minutes.

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