Comet Neowise Time Lapse - July 24, 2020
A time-lapse capture of Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) and its long, sweeping dust tail, taken shortly after the comet’s closest approach to Earth in July 2020.
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- What it is
- Comet NEOWISE (formally C/2020 F3) is a long-period comet discovered on March 27, 2020 by NASA's NEOWISE space telescope. It became the brightest comet visible from the Northern Hemisphere since Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997.
- Perihelion (closest to Sun)
- July 3, 2020
- Closest approach to Earth
- July 23, 2020, at a distance of about 103 million km (0.69 AU)
- Orbital period
- ~6,800 years — it will not return to the inner solar system for millennia
- Constellation (mid-to-late July 2020)
- Ursa Major / Camelopardalis, low in the northwest sky after sunset
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