# Comet Neowise (C/2020 F3): Anyone else seeing it?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 9, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-neowise-c-2020-f3-anyone-else-seeing-it/914821 "2020-07-09T12:28:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-neowise-c-2020-f3-anyone-else-seeing-it/914821/61 "2020-07-31T21:04:23Z")

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Saw it from a park with a clear north-western horizon here in Toronto last Friday evening, but had to use binoculars to confirm. The park is down close to Lake Ontario, so the lights of most of the city were washing out the lower skies a lot. Neowise has decreased in brightness quite a bit now, so that may be my one and only viewing. We have had cloudy nights every day since, although tonight is looking like another maybe.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-neowise-c-2020-f3-anyone-else-seeing-it/914821/62 "2020-09-06T04:02:06Z")

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I was just looking through my posts for something and came across this thread. Here is my best image from earlier this summer.

[Link](https://flic.kr/p/2jDLEpy)

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-neowise-c-2020-f3-anyone-else-seeing-it/914821/63 "2020-09-06T04:17:05Z")

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Very nice, but what is that eerie blue skyglow?

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-neowise-c-2020-f3-anyone-else-seeing-it/914821/64 "2020-09-06T04:32:16Z")

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If you mean down near the bottom, just above the trees, I did some dodging there in Photoshop. Though it does look a bit artificial, it’s still better than how it was originally.

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-neowise-c-2020-f3-anyone-else-seeing-it/914821/65 "2020-09-06T15:45:53Z")

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It actually looks pretty cool - like you took the photo from Chernobyl.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comet-neowise-c-2020-f3-anyone-else-seeing-it/914821/66 "2020-09-07T08:03:03Z")

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@Spectre, very nice!

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