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C 2020 F3 Neowise

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.

Imaging telescope: TS Photon 8" F5 Newtonian reflector
Imaging camera: Nikon D3500
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro Go-To
Guiding telescope: TS 80/600 F7.5 Achromat
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Coma corrector: TS GPU Superflat
Extras: -

Software: Adobe Photoshop 2020, PHD Guiding
Frames: 120s x 1 ISO 200
Integration: 2 minutes
Date captured: 21/07/2020
Location: Athens, Greece
Bortle Scale (?): 8