{"id":22,"date":"2020-07-24T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2021-01-09T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T21:29:13","slug":"shooting-comet-neowise-harbinger-of-new-wisdom-from-our-backyard-in-kongens-lyngby-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Comet Neowise &#x2604;&#xfe0f;, harbinger of new wisdom, from our backyard in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These are taken on June 22.7.2020 right after midnight, when it was dark enough to see the comet even with bare eye and binoculars. I used Nikon Z6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First a wide field photo taken with Nikkor 50mm F\/1.8G, ISO 2000, F\/2.2, 2 seconds shutter time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2252.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24\" srcset=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2252.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2252-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2252-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Second shot is with a vintage 1980s Canon FD 500mm F\/4.5L manual focus lens. For this shot I used ISO 8000, 3 sec shutter time and wide open aperture (4.5). Two tripods were used: one to support the lens and second to support the camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2285.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25\" srcset=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2285.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2285-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2285-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next night I got a new change even that it seemed to me that the comet was&#8217;t that bright any more. Here is the picture with the same 500mm tele lens. This is taken on 23.7. at 00:37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2522.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\" srcset=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2522.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2522-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DSC2522-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for watching \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are taken on June 22.7.2020 right after midnight, when it was dark enough to see the comet even with bare eye and binoculars. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=22\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shooting Comet Neowise &#x2604;&#xfe0f;, harbinger of new wisdom, from our backyard in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}