Got lucky with a clear night.
The top half captures exactly how it felt to see it from home with the naked eye, the bottom half with my binoculars.
Are you in a very dark place? Might go hunting this evening as I didn’t think it would be visible to the naked eye.
edit: Found a superb tracker here. You can stick in your location and time and it tells you where to look:
I live between a city and a suburb, shielded from a lot of the light by hills, there’s still quite a bit of glare behind my back but no lights towards the western horizon, which is where the comet just happens to be.
You can just see it by eye in the burbs, if you can get a a little bit outside of town it should be easy to spot.
I’m rural but the city is directly west, between me and comet. You can sort of see the glare in the photo. Definitely not naked eye visible where I was.
What did you use to capture/process this?
Both are shot on a Sony a7r (2013), the first was on a 35mm lens at f/4, ISO 640, 10s exposure. The second was with a 400mm lens at f/6.5, ISO 6400, 2s exposure. Both images were processes using RawTherapee to fix the contrast, colour, etc.
Looks awesome! I’m planning to head out tonight to shoot it myself.
By 8pm the sky was just dark enough that I could see it by eye in the burbs (lots of street lights). If you can go anywhere the slightest bit dark it should go well.
I wasn’t able to see it with my naked eyes, but I did have a great view through binoculars! Also took a bunch of photos which I’ll process tomorrow.
Nice, it wasn’t as bright today but still pretty clear.
Fantastic!
