Happy Friday, everyone! Just thought I'd share these pics that I took of comet NEOWISE from my backyard (again) in Pomona, California, last night. I was pondering about whether or not I should've went to Joshua Tree National Park yesterday or Wednesday (when NEOWISE made its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 64.3 million miles, or 103.5 million kilometers) to capture additional photos, but for financial reasons I decided to stay home since I didn't want to risk putting wear-and-tear on my car. Here are the settings I used on my Nikon D3300 DSLR camera:
Lens: 70-300mm Nikon telephoto lens
ISO: 800
F-stop: f/5.6
Shutter speed: 8 seconds
Live View mode on my LCD screen used instead of the viewfinder
Seeing as how I finally managed to spot NEOWISE on my own last night (without the use of binoculars), I wanted to end my comet-photographing campaign on a high note...so these are the very last images I'll take of this celestial body as it heads back into the far reaches of our solar system. Thank you for putting on a show for us quarantined Earthlings for the past couple of weeks, comet NEOWISE! If I was immortal, I'd say see you again in 6,800 years... Carry on.
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