{"id":3178,"date":"2020-07-18T16:57:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2020-07-18T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:57:28","slug":"naked-eye-comet-2020-f3-neowise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Naked eye Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"st\"><em>Comet<\/em> 2020 F3 (<em>NEOWISE<\/em>) is one of&nbsp; the brightest naked eye comets we have seen from this part of the world for some years.&nbsp; In the past couple of weeks it has been delighting amateur photographers as a pre-dawn object but for the night-owls (as opposed to the early birds) you will be pleased to know it is now easily observable in the evening sky (weather permitting of course).&nbsp; Start to look in darkish twilight i.e. around 11 pm, just as the stars are emerging.&nbsp; Look a little way above the horizon in a north-west to north direction (you need a reasonable north horizon) and you should be able to spot it quite easily.&nbsp; It will be available for the next couple of weeks but it is getting dimmer now so will get harder to see, although binoculars show it even more easily.&nbsp; Being quite bright it is also easy to photograph.&nbsp; For good results make sure your camera is steady, for example on a tripod.&nbsp; Use an ISO of around 800 to 1000 and an exposure of around 4 seconds with your lowest f number, you may need to experiment a bit.&nbsp; The picture below was taken from my garden in Abergavenny on the 16th July with a compact camera.&nbsp; Happy comet hunting and fingers crossed for some clear skies.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?attachment_id=3179\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3179\" src=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_1681B-1024x956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_1681B-1024x956.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_1681B-300x280.jpg 300w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_1681B-768x717.jpg 768w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_1681B-150x140.jpg 150w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_1681B-400x373.jpg 400w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_1681B.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is one of&nbsp; the brightest naked eye comets we have seen from this part of the world for some years.&nbsp; In the past couple of weeks it has been delighting amateur photographers as a pre-dawn object but for the night-owls (as opposed to the early birds) you will be pleased to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}