Comet Neowise

[Benny Profane]

50mm f/1.4, 32mm f/1.4, 24mm f/1.8, or 22 f/2... hmmm

I really want a Rokinon 12mm f/2

I got one of those for the Fuji. Cheap and good. Totally manual. Dont find much use for it, though. Really good for church cielings.

[The AD]

Cool foreground on that one!

Thanks! This was at a marina and I was standing on a little bridge section leading to the pier and it would shake when people walked by. As you can imagine every time I was ready to take the shot someone else would decide that was a good time to walk by.

[Benny Profane]

"As an added bonus, you may be able to catch the International Space Station fly 254 overhead too. It will make a visible pass over the East Coast shortly before 5 a.m. on Thursday, and again around 9:30 p.m.."

Sorry if you dont have a WAPO subscription, but theres a ton of pictures of this thing from many locations here: Comet Neowise is visible in the evening sky this week
By Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...ise-night-sky/

[From_the_NEK]

"As an added bonus, you may be able to catch the International Space Station fly 254 overhead too. It will make a visible pass over the East Coast shortly before 5 a.m. on Thursday, and again around 9:30 p.m.."

Yep, I caught it by accident last night!



Unfortunately I wasn't set up to get the reflection of the streak in frame.

[Toadman]

Also how did they get the comet's tail to bend the opposite direction that it does in everyone else's photos?

Bend it like Beckham!

Going to drop some coin for a 24mm lens. I'm sure I will use more than once, or twice over the next 10 or so years.

[snapt]

I'm real bad at night photos

[zartagen]

I didn't think I'd catch it tonight due to some lingering clouds and wildfire smoke, but I walked outside at 9:30 and caught it almost immediately with my naked eye! I've been patiently waiting for a comet since hale bopp (i was 10), so that was a real treat. I didn't put much effort into finding a good spot to shoot, so I'm not super excited about the composition, but this is the 50mm with the 1st Flatiron in the frame.

50mm f/1.8 4sec ISO-800

[KQ]

I can lay on my bed and see it out my window. Pretty cool. I love comets!

[abraham]

Yep, it's pretty faint until the sky is dark. When you can see any other stars look a couple fists up from the horizon in the NW and you'll spot it easily. Much easier to see through binocs.

Here's another shot from last night.

Edmonds ferry terminal?

I'm real bad at night photos

Those are cool

[Tap]

What is up with how big some people are getting the comet to look and claiming ~70mm focal distance values? Is it that photo stacking shit?

[From_the_NEK]

70mm and a heavy crop most likely.

[Timberridge]

They're probably cropping in Lightroom, etc. A raw file taken using a good lens can be zoomed and cropped pretty heavily before it sucks. Other than moon shots, the night sky is pretty forgiving.

[plugboots]

That was cool. Really clear night and I could see the comet, the ISS and a meteor at the same time.

[gravitylover]

Ya, what's up with that? When I was a kid they would usually dwindle to none in the middle of July. Now I am used to being eaten alive all summer. Except this year I noticed a significant drop off. Is it the relatively dry year so far? And of course they love me, I am a mosquito, and black fly, magnet.

It's part of the overall die off of flying insects this year. I think that the buildup of broad spectrum pesticides the last three years has been devastating to the bug population. I can do 300+ mile days in the car and not have a single bug splat on the windshield. 3-5 years ago, depending on where I was, I had to clean it every hour or two at most. Fucking Drumpf and the choking the EPA off is a disaster.

Re: Comet - It's been cloudy every evening so far, if it doesn't look like I'll get a chance to see it from home we're going to have to take a ride. We've gotten skunked on all but 2 celestial events in the last 10 years due to clouds/weather

[The AD]

Edmonds ferry terminal? Those are cool

Thanks! Yes, the marina just south of the ferry terminal.

[riser4]

It's part of the overall die off of flying insects this year. I think that the buildup of broad spectrum pesticides the last three years has been devastating to the bug population. I can do 300+ mile days in the car and not have a single bug splat on the windshield. 3-5 years ago, depending on where I was, I had to clean it every hour or two at most. Fucking Drumpf and the choking the EPA off is a disaster.

Re: Comet - It's been cloudy every evening so far, if it doesn't look like I'll get a chance to see it from home we're going to have to take a ride. We've gotten skunked on all but 2 celestial events in the last 10 years due to clouds/weather

I got eaten alive a few hours before dark while I was working in the garden yesterday. Then at twilight, nothing.

[From_the_NEK]

Barely a mosquito again last night... and fewer clouds. At least at the start of comet viewing.



Then some high level clouds moved in and that was it.

[Timberridge]

Nice lake shot NEK. And no bloodletting is a bonus.

Goddamn satellites are fucking up long exposures. Wait till Musk covers the entire sky with his latest swarm.

[Toadman]

Had a car drive by when I took this shot. Kind of cool light effect.



I kept the ISO down to as low as 800 and 12 second exposure with the sun having just sent about 30 minutes earlier. Messed around with 18mm to 50mm.



Warm and clear night for photography.

[Norseman]

Neowise over Hood Canal and the Olympics

f/1.4 beotches

[Toadman]

Pulled the trigger on a Canon f1.4 24mm lens. $129 bucks. I also bought a 50mm f2.8 off brand lens for $75, should be good for photos of the pooch when he is staying still, which is just about never.

Borrowed my Aunt's binoculars last night to get a closer look at that comet, pretty cool. Wish I still had my 1,200mm telescope to get a really good look at that thing.

[From_the_NEK]

My photo from the Lake above was shot with my F1.8 50mm. With a very small crop due to horizon leveling.

[Toadman]

My photo from the Lake above was shot with my F1.8 50mm. With a very small crop due to horizon leveling.

Do you recall your exposure time and ISO setting for that shot? My zoom lens only allowed me to get to a f4 at 18mm, and f5.0 at 50mm.

[From_the_NEK]

Do you recall your exposure time and ISO setting for that shot? My zoom lens only allowed me to get to a f4 at 18mm, and f5.0 at 50mm.

6 seconds at f1.8, 50mm, 1600 ISO

I also had some earlier shots at 8 seconds but with 800 ISO.

With my f2.8 lenses I was running 8 seconds once it started to get really dark. Earlier, when the sky was lighter, I was running 6 second with the f2.8 lenses.

[Toadman]

6 seconds at f1.8, 50mm, 1600 ISO

I also had some earlier shots at 8 seconds but with 800 ISO.

With my f2.8 lenses I was running 8 seconds once it started to get really dark. Earlier, when the sky was lighter, I was running 6 second with the f2.8 lenses.

Thanks. My lenses show up tomorrow, so will do some more experimenting.