Got a couple night's worth of pics with different lenses. Without a remote to control the shutter, hard to get a crisp picture with your finger on the shutter button for about a minute.
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NEOWISE, brightest comet in decades visible through July
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I think it's cool seeing how the comet looks from our various locations on the earth.
Thanks everyone for your contributions.
-Mike
Thanks everyone for your contributions.
-Mike
Yes, but when you're using Bulb mode, I don't know how else to keep the shutter open for 90secs or longer
Interesting. According to the manual you're pretty much required to use the remote control for longer exposures in bulb setting to avoid camera shake. It looks like there's no way to program the shutter to automatically take exposures long enough to capture star images.
Just as you said.
I have a wired shutter release that plugs into my camera that has a locked position for bulb mode so you don't have to keep it pressed down manually. That said, 90 seconds is really too long for this type of shot since the comet is moving in the sky.
A lucky break in the clouds!
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I am having zero luck seeing it 
My wife, daughter and I have gone out to look every night. I think our suburban location is the culprit.
My wife, daughter and I have gone out to look every night. I think our suburban location is the culprit.
Advice how to see the comet from the suburbs (like me). Climb to the highest deck, porch, or window with a view of the NW sky. This is looking out my 2nd floor, west-facing window, over the roof of the building next door. Look for the Big Dipper. Then, look down toward the horizon from the Big Dipper. (If you know the Big Bear, Ursa Major, look between the "paws" of the Bear.) The comet is visible where I live from 9:00-11:30pm; your results may vary. I took this last night at 11:12pm with a 30-second exposure, on a tripod. Not my best photo, but I am sharing for a specific reason, as inspiration: The comet is visible in the suburbs with light pollution. Just scan the roofline and treeline in the northwest, under the Big Dipper.
I am having zero luck seeing it
Hang in there buddy and don't give up.
It took me several days of scanning the sky at night and not seeing anything. I was ready to give up and just look at other peoples pictures, which are impressive. But it's another level of cool and awe when you cast your own eyes on it.
Might I suggest using an app like Sky Map or Star Walk for example? Not to see the comet, but that'll help you identify the constellations and stars that are a point of reference to seeing the comet. Once you get dialed in on where to look, then you can start zeroing in on it. A pair of binoculars would help too, but not necessary. Once I picked it out of the sky. I was able to see it with my naked eye fairly easily.
Up here where I am, the best viewing starts after 10:30 PM.
This recommendation comes from the Sky & Telescope website: Start looking about 1 hour after sunset, when you'll find it just over the northwestern horizon as the last of twilight fades into darkness. Look about three fists below the bottom of the Big Dipper, which is hanging down by its handle high above, and from there perhaps a little to right.
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-Mike
I am having zero luck seeing it
I had to drive out of the burbs and away from the city to see it with any clarity, and even then it was best with binoculars. I actually looked up light pollution maps to figure out where to go cause most of Jersey is pretty bad in that department. I only drive 1/2 hour or so, and it was totally worth it. As @MJ5150 points out there is something special about putting your own eyes on it. As he also mentions there are plenty of free apps that will help identify where to look.
Sadly this is what I'm up against. From my front porch you can see the big ass tree (tm) and the street light which, of course, are NW. We'll need to travel to the outskirts it seems.
Man all of our lawns look horrid. California water laws are not lawn friendly.
Man all of our lawns look horrid. California water laws are not lawn friendly.
Your grass isn't dead @Funky Ghost, it's sleeping. 
If it possible to get on your roof to view?
-Mike
If it possible to get on your roof to view?
-Mike
tYour grass isn't dead @Funky Ghost, it's sleeping.
If it possible to get on your roof to view?
-Mike
*I* could... the wife and daughter will absolutely not join me
My 4 ft 11 wife has a strict no climb policy hahaha Something about the world being a bigger place for her . . . 
This is from last Saturday night over Ocean City, NJ, but I've only just had time to process it. It was a hot, hazy night with some light clouds, the moon was in the sky, and the comet is fading, so it was much more difficult to capture than my shots from the prior weekend during the new moon on a clear night.
