[Leica] IMG: Comet NEOWISE 2020

Jayanand Govindaraj jayanand at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 20:11:55 PDT 2020


Wonderful!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:16 PM Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Got up at 4:00 AM this morning and drove out north of town to get away
> from the city lights. Set up the tripod. Looked for comet NEOWISE in the NE
> sky but couldn’t pick it out but a pair of (Leica - see? on topic)
> binoculars found it right away.
>
> Astro photography is a bit of a different thing for me. I made some
> mistakes. I should have used the delay on the camera so I got a bit of
> tripod shake. But I did make a comet photo!
>
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/MiscUsage/Astronomy/i-DwpdHCL/A>
>
> Fujifilm GFX100 with 250mm f4 lens. 1.3 seconds @ ISO 2000.
>
> It was fun to see the comet which was naked-eye visible as my eyes got
> adjusted. Of course the sky was lightening also.
>
> Thanks for looking!
>
> Adam Bridge
> Davis, CA
>
>
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