80,000 years to come around – Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, it deserves to be seen.

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C/2020 F3 or NEOWISE was first seen on March 27, 2020, less than 3 months ago. So really, I picture somebody had an “oh sh*t” moment… “boss, look, comet!” (mumbled through a mask since it was March 2020.) Space is fascinating, scary, yet inviting. How do you not feel small and insignificant on a night like last night? I stood next to a lake, dodging mosquitoes, looking at a chunk of ice hurling away from us at 40 miles per second, 64 million miles away, in hope to take its photo and it be in focus. And this was my third night attempting to get this shot. I am a speck of a speck on a speck, with a camera. Humbled as we all might need to be now and then, but knowing I am less of a speck than the mosquitoes. Thank you to Wendy for the use of the perfect location and the company.

All photographed from the SE corner of Lake Wintrhop in Holliston, MA. Between 10-11pm, facing NW. Camera,

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Figured I would toss my camera into the comet ring. Comet NEOWISE is visible in the North West Sky, looking at info and knowing some friends who have gotten great shots I head out to a local lake and line up. This is the first shot I took. A test, 30 seconds to see if I can get a location to shoot more. I never saw it in the camera. Took more, bit by the time the second shot was done the clouds had come in, and they kept coming. Figuring I was never getting it – because I was looking too high, I packed it in after giving the misquotes enough of my blood. Get home, play with some photos and there is the comet, in the first (and only the first shot). If you have not found it is heading right into the p in my watermark. Barely in the frame of the shot. Maybe I will head out again… maybe I won’t. Annoyed I did not line it up correctly.

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