Re: [BAA Comets] 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) Nick James 07 Jul 2020 22:46 UTC
Peter,

That shows the bifurcated tail well.

I've stacked 21x5s exposures from this morning and the resulting V-band
synthesised image shows stars to around 9th mag at the same altitude as
the comet (Gaia DR2). Comphot then gives a total magnitude of 2.0. The
detected tail length is around 1.5 deg.

Things should get better for us as the comet moves up into a darker sky.

Nick.

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> I stacked 14 of yesterday’s desaturated images and it shows well the bifurcated
> tail near the comet’s head.
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