Posted on Jul 16, 2020
APOD: 2020 July 16 - The Long Tails of Comet NEOWISE
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Music on the Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic -- Jazz, Delta Blues, Violin, Street Organ!
Video clips from a recent visit to Prague. There's so much music in this city -- much of it performed by street musicians. This video was made from several d...
Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Thursday, July 16, 2020 entitled "The Long Tails of Comet NEOWISE."
Image: The Long Tails of Comet NEOWISE view from Suchy Vrch, Czech Republic - Image Credit & Copyright - Petr Horalek
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"Explanation: This Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) now sweeps through our fair planet's northern skies. Its long tails stretch across this deep sky view from Suchy Vrch, Czech Republic. Recorded on the night of July 13/14, the composite of untracked foreground and tracked and filtered sky exposures teases out details in the comet's tail not visible to the unaided eye. Faint structures extend to the top of the frame, over 20 degrees from the comet's bright coma. Pushed out by the pressure of sunlight itself, the broad curve of the comet's yellowish dust tail is easy to see by eye. But the fainter, more bluish tail is separate from the reflective comet dust. The fainter tail is an ion tail, formed as ions from the cometary coma are dragged outward by magnetic fields in the solar wind and fluoresce in the sunlight. Outbound NEOWISE is climbing higher in northern evening skies, coming closest to Earth on July 23rd."
Since the image was taken in Czech Republic here is some street Jazz from Czech Republic
Music on the Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic -- Jazz, Delta Blues, Violin, Street Organ!
"Video clips from a recent visit to Prague. There's so much music in this city -- much of it performed by street musicians.
This video was made from several different days on the bridge -- I never knew what to expect from one day to the next. What sounds like thunder during the violin solo is just gusts of wind, amplified by the condenser mike. (Oh, don't miss the "commercial" for his CD at the end of his piece!) The incredible blues trio is led by vocalist Matej Ptaszek.
Greetings to many of the congenial people I met in Prague, including Fiona & Richard, and Rupert & Uli. You made my visit infinitely more memorable!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXProxS-rGw
FYI PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Capt Dwayne Conyers LTC (Join to see) Sgt (Join to see) SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO1 H Gene Lawrence SP5 Mark Kuzinski CPL Dave Hoover Cpl (Join to see) Maj Kim Patterson SPC Margaret Higgins Cynthia Croft SPC Nancy Greene SSG Michael Noll SGT Mark Anderson SGT Steve McFarland SGT Denny Espinosa PVT Mark Zehner PO3 Lynn Spalding
Image: The Long Tails of Comet NEOWISE view from Suchy Vrch, Czech Republic - Image Credit & Copyright - Petr Horalek
APOD background
"Explanation: This Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) now sweeps through our fair planet's northern skies. Its long tails stretch across this deep sky view from Suchy Vrch, Czech Republic. Recorded on the night of July 13/14, the composite of untracked foreground and tracked and filtered sky exposures teases out details in the comet's tail not visible to the unaided eye. Faint structures extend to the top of the frame, over 20 degrees from the comet's bright coma. Pushed out by the pressure of sunlight itself, the broad curve of the comet's yellowish dust tail is easy to see by eye. But the fainter, more bluish tail is separate from the reflective comet dust. The fainter tail is an ion tail, formed as ions from the cometary coma are dragged outward by magnetic fields in the solar wind and fluoresce in the sunlight. Outbound NEOWISE is climbing higher in northern evening skies, coming closest to Earth on July 23rd."
Since the image was taken in Czech Republic here is some street Jazz from Czech Republic
Music on the Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic -- Jazz, Delta Blues, Violin, Street Organ!
"Video clips from a recent visit to Prague. There's so much music in this city -- much of it performed by street musicians.
This video was made from several different days on the bridge -- I never knew what to expect from one day to the next. What sounds like thunder during the violin solo is just gusts of wind, amplified by the condenser mike. (Oh, don't miss the "commercial" for his CD at the end of his piece!) The incredible blues trio is led by vocalist Matej Ptaszek.
Greetings to many of the congenial people I met in Prague, including Fiona & Richard, and Rupert & Uli. You made my visit infinitely more memorable!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXProxS-rGw
FYI PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Capt Dwayne Conyers LTC (Join to see) Sgt (Join to see) SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO1 H Gene Lawrence SP5 Mark Kuzinski CPL Dave Hoover Cpl (Join to see) Maj Kim Patterson SPC Margaret Higgins Cynthia Croft SPC Nancy Greene SSG Michael Noll SGT Mark Anderson SGT Steve McFarland SGT Denny Espinosa PVT Mark Zehner PO3 Lynn Spalding
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Good Morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price, still not yet.....I'm setting an alarm for sunset and setting on my front stairs til I see something tonight....Provided it is clear skies.....!
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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
Alan K. Look to the northwest right after twilight, below the Big Dipper. You can use this site to help you find it: https://stellarium-web.org/
Stellarium Web Online Star Map
Stellarium Web is a planetarium running in your web browser. It shows a realistic star map, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
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Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and thank you for this intriguing image of the Comet NEOWISE... It is an outstanding photo using appropriate filters to maximize the features that cannot be seen with the naked eye...
Have a great day, Bill...
Have a great day, Bill...
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