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Midnight mountain time

Hahaha. Tff Slumbro.

Just got a pic from my brother in the mountains of N AZ. I'll see if he took it and if I can post it here.

I've got another from a niece who pulled it off her local farcebook page in the Sierras.

I can't figure out my camera well enough yet. Maybe I give it another try.

Picture my niece pulled off the local farcebook page where she lives in the Sierras



Pic my brother took last night in the high mountains of N AZ. (7000'+ )



Brother said tripod, either 4, 5 or 6 second exposure ( he wasn't sure on this particular pic), ISO either 6400 or 10K, and f2 @ infinity.

I'm going to see if I can figure out my camera good enough to get close to those numbers tonight, and hope the smoke plume from a fire 60 miles or so away is blowing the other direction.

Cool pics

I saw it last night at 10:10 PM. No matter how I tried to get my phone camera to "see" through the Minox 15X58 I could not.

I could BARELY see it last night (I think...). It's way too humid here, I can barely see stars at all, even though it's "clear". And the light pollution is horrendous, especially trying to see anything near the horizon. And this is here in "rural" Kentucky.

I was outside changing some water at 4 am this morning. It, and most of the big dipper, were below the horizon at that time. This time of year it's not fully dark here until 10.30 or later. Its getting high enough now to be in the dark part of the sky before it goes down. It's getting high enough now to get tangled in the Great Bear's feet.

Great pics valsdad.

You have the Nikon 3400 right? I'm sure you read the directions I posted above. Set it on S and turn the plain black wheel, until in the lower left corner it says 2"
That means 2 second time exposure.

I just figured out, the other thing, you have to hold the shutter button down for several seconds, to make it shoot. Push the button like normal and it won't fire you might have to hold it down for 4 or 5 seconds.

Those pics have me inspired!

Higher, brighter, and more easily visible...

Skies cleared this afternoon and we rode up to the ridge north of the house. Best viewing is supposed to be on/around the 22nd, but will take what the weather allows.

Great pics, Valsdad...

Thanks simon.

Somehow I missed your earlier post. I'll check and see if I can figure that out. Going to have to dig out the tripod first, 2 seconds is a long time to hold still, even with the built in shake correction.

Bright tonight. About 1 fist under Big Dipper. Easily visible with naked eye

Used some 10x70 Fujinon binocs and it really shows up

Great view off the back deck!

wife and I got out last night and got our eyes on it.

pretty cool.

Wife was home over the weekend. She's been spending most of July with the grandkids, near Edgerton WI while their parents work. Up til last night she hadn't seen the comet.

After she looked it over last night, I explained about the satellite that found it and why they called the comet "Neowise". She declared that to be a dumb name and promptly named it after herself.

Bet I'm not the only one with a woman like that.

It will be at its closest to Earth the nights of the 22nd and 23rd. It dims as it recedes from the Sun, so closer but dimmer may be a bit of a wash, viewing-wise (pun intended.)

It will continue to be visible, higher but dimmer all the time, for weeks yet.

No tripod no picture. And you can set it for 5 seconds, anything you want up to 30 seconds. I just figured out how to work it last night, that you had to hold the shutter release for several seconds to make it fire on time exposure, and when I figured that out I had a blood alcohol of about .10 maybe .12

These cameras are smarter than we are.

It's hard to get a good night photo here. We normally have too much dust in the air from farming and wind in the desert this time of year. The stars aren't as bright as they are other times of the year.