Larry, you are getting some very nice looking results!
We are unlucky to have cloudy skies, so we haven't seen it.
Just in case: there are a few phone apps that help finding the comet (and
other celestial objects) on the sky, and many of them are free.
I was using Sky Safari (on Android).
It allows to see the height of the comet at different times of the day,
etc.
Cheers,
Igor
Larry Colen Fri, 17 Jul 2020 02:24:28 -0700 wrote:
I did some test shots of Neowise tonight, I tried to get some really wide
angle one to show where it was in relation to the Big Dipper, but
unfortunately constellations don’t really show up well in photos, so I
sort of cheated with Lightroom to draw in the Big Dipper:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50122251052/in/album-72157715131030577/
It’s a bit of a hack, but I don’t have things dialed in well on my new
laptop.
Here is a fun shot, that I couldn’t have done this well if I had tried.
crossing the tail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50122248862/in/album-72157715131030577/
The comet was down in the fog, I definitely need to find someplace higher
up to photograph it from. Full set here, nothing spectacular, but it is
definitely getting a lot more visible than it was last week.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157715131030577
At the moment, it seems that my best results are with astrotracer at 10
seconds. I really wish astrotracer worked at shorter times than 10
seconds.
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