Poetry In Motion
by Rob Hemphill
Title
Poetry In Motion
Artist
Rob Hemphill
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Comet Neowise peeps through the clouds on the farm with a favourite pine tree in the foreground. This occurrence was on the night on 20 July 2020 in County Tipperary, Ireland. Just after capturing this image the cloud cover became too intense, but fortunately that was as dawn was approaching!
The comet appeared fairly low in the north-western sky in the constellation of Ursa Major, below the asterism of the Big Dipper (The Plough). For observers in the northern hemisphere, it can also be seen in the morning, the comet appears very low above the north-eastern horizon, below Capella.
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope. At that time, it was an 18th-magnitude object, located 2 AU (300 million km; 190 million mi) away from the Sun and 1.7 AU (250 million km; 160 million mi) away from Earth.
In July 2020, it was bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. It is one of the brightest comets in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997 and was widely observed as being clearly visible with the naked eye. Under dark skies, it can be clearly seen with the naked eye and might remain visible to the naked eye throughout most of July 2020, at least until July 23, the point of the comet's closest approach to Earth. Prior to that date, the comet will be getting closer to Earth as it moves farther away from the Sun. As of July 18, the comet was about magnitude 3. Near urban areas binoculars are required to locate the comet.
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Featured in the following FAA Groups:
"Art Forever With You" 10/13/2020
"Art Submissions To PKA" 09/20/2020
"Photographic Camera Art" 08/14/2020
"Bedroom Art Gallery" 08/01/2020
"Hodge Podge" 07/28/2020
"New FAA Uploads" 07/26/2020
"Your Story of Art" 07/26/2020
"Long Exposure And Night Photography" 07/25/2020
"An Image Inspiring Meditation" 07/25/2020
"10 Plus" 07/25/2020
"Light Rays And Lightning" 07/25/2020
"Light Marvels" 07/25/2020
"Nikon Full Frame Cameras" 07/25/2020
"Fine Art America Professionals" 07/25/2020
"Your Very Best Photography" 07/24/2020
"Just Perfect" 07/23/2020
"Silhouettes" 07/22/2020
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July 22nd, 2020
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Comments (62)
Kathryn Jones
A magnificent capture of the sky at night! Unfortunately whenever these interesting objects are visible - elsewhere - Mother Nature decides to send massive amounts of cloud cover in our neck of the woods. Clearly she has been more co-operative where you are!
JOHN TELFER
Rob, Great capture of the Comet Neowise with this Pine Tree in a silhouette image against the night time sky
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Photographic Camera Art" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet!
Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “Long Exposure and Night Photography ” group on Fine Art America - You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.
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