July 21, 2020 — Lake Hennessey, California
Fog all over the Bay Area. Not a star in sight. No hope at all for a comet. We went in search of clear skies further inland and eventually wound up on the shore of Lake Hennessey, which we’d never heard of. A pleasant 62 degrees, clear skies, late-night fishermen, and a hilly horizon. Here’s our catch: Two meteors, the Big Dipper, a whole bunch of stars, a satellite track — and oh yes, the comet with a tiny bit of ion tail visible. All in this one shot.
(Nikon D850, Tamron SP 24–70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 3.3; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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Very nice this capture! 😀
I forgot to try to shot the Neowise! 🙂
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Thanks very much. There is still time.
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Really!? I thought yesterday was the last day in terms of possibility. 🙂
Lets see. 🙂
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I shot this on the 21st. It should be visible for at least another week.
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Oh, very good! 😀
That’s nice! 😀
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Oh yes, and despite what I said before, that very slight glow above the horizon adds a lot to it. 🙂
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Thank you very much. I see that the glow is a popular item!
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And to your other luminaries don’t forget to add the glow over the horizon.
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After I left my comment I noticed that Adrian Lewis had said something similar.
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Yup!
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The glow seems to be really popular. Thank you.
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That is awesome and plus you got a meteor.
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Thank you. Actually got two. The other one is small and just to the right of the tail of the comet.
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Nailed it, again!
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Thank you very much. It was an obsession. There’s one other shot I would like to get, but I’m not sure where or when.
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Beautiful shot, Michael. The meteor was a nice bonus.
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Thank you very much. There are actually two meteors, the smaller one being just to the right of the tail of the comet.
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Ah, my eyes are getting old–I initially took it to be part of the comet. A double bonus for you, Michael, and thanks for helping me to see the second meteor.
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There’s also a sort of horizontal satellite track below and to the right of the comet. Some of my shots had so many satellite tracks in them that they were unusable. It’s a busy sky up there.
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No image 😳 Can’t wait to see it👍
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That’s very strange. All I can say is try again. I did take it down and put up a slightly different edit only about 10 minutes after I posted it. And I doubt you were awake then.
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And somewhere between those stars there’s a little green face…!!!!!!!!
What a capture, my friend! Third Time’s the Charm indeed!!!!
I finally saw it with binoculars. It looked like a pastel smudge in the sky! 😉
I did try to photograph it and ended up with lots and lots of stars, but no comet! But that’s okay, I’m happy I saw it!
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Somewhere between those stores there are probably lots of little green faces. I’m glad you got a chance to see it!
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A ha ha ha…. maybe! 😂🤣👽👽👽👽
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More rain and clouds here but we need the precipitation so guess I won’t complain. This is a nice capture with all that interest to complement the comet. I would have been happy with either of the previous but this is cool.
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Thank you very much. The one thing I didn’t get rid of lots of detail in the tail. For that you really need to have longer exposures, tracked so that the stars don’t streak and then stack them to reduce noise and bring out detail. I don’t have means of tracking.
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Fantastic, Michael – it took me a minute to find the Big Dipper, with all that “noise” in the background. I’m glad your perigrinations were rewarding. 😉
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Thank you very much, Lynn. All that “noise“ is a fine example of what the camera can see on a relatively dark night. I wish I had had the time to travel to a truly dark area. Still, I’m fairly satisfied.
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There’s still time! That would be a great goal for a trip, once we get past all this you-know-what. 🙂
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