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Comet 2020/F3 NEOWISE21 viewsConditions for photographing Comet NEOWISE from my observatory near Anza, California were less than ideal. The comet was visible only in the northwest for a couple hours after sunset, at most, which put it squarely in the Los Angeles light dome. Another factor involved was the inexperience of the photographer - I hadn't done any night shooting with my DSLR before and I never got the camera focused properly, so the stars came out somewhat bloated and fuzzy. They also show some coma, I don't know why. But at least the comet itself came out reasonably well.

Pre-Totality 619 viewsAnd Baghdad darken and the bridge
Across the silent river gone
And through Arabia the edge
Of evening widen and steal on

Pre-Totality 315 viewsTo feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow

Pre-Totality 214 viewsAnd here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth’s noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night:

Pre-Totality 713 viewsAnd deepen on Palmyra’s street
The wheel rut in the ruined stone
And Lebanon fade out and Crete
High through the clouds and overblown

First Contact plus 6 minutes12 viewsThe lightweight mount I was using made the scope sensitive to vibration - hence the shaky picture.

Pre-Totality 812 viewsAnd over Sicily the air
Still flashing with the landward gulls
And loom and slowly disappear
The sails above the shadowy hulls

Maximum Totality11 viewsWith a glorious corona.

Pre-Totality 411 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange
The flooding dark about their knees
The mountains over Persia change

The Sun - Just prior to First Contact (Hydrogen-Alpha View)10 viewsVenus has not yet begun to encroach on the Sun's disk

First Contact plus 1 minute 28 seconds10 viewsThe nibble on the sun is a little larger.

Second Contact10 viewsFirst contact plus 16 minutes - Venus has now "detached" itself from the Sun's rim and is heading inward.

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