By Stephen Mollick | 2020-07-24
![Community photo entitled by Claire Shickora on 07/25/2020 at Lords Valley, Pennsylvania, USA](https://earthsky.org/upl/gravity_forms/6-d184048789a60d766a02a8e43117298b/2020/07/Neowise-at-McConnell-Lake-20200725-564-22-24-50.jpg)
On 07/25/2020 10:25 pm by Claire Shickora| Lords Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
After two hours, a zillion mosquito bites, and intermittent clouds, I got lucky... Just below the Big Dipper in the Constellation Ursa Major (The Big Bear) the Comet Neowise sinks into the hazy, light-polluted horizon over Route 739 in Lords Valley, Pike County, Pennsylvania. At the time of this shot (10:25 pm on July 25, 2020) Neowise was 21 degrees above the horizon, had a magnitude of 4.71 (the brighter the object, the lower the number of magnitude assigned - the dimmest object visible with the naked eye is typically magnitude 6.5), and was approximately .71 Astronomical Units from the earth (an AU is approximately 93 million miles and approximately 8 light-minutes.
Canon EOS 6D Mark II - Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L ISII USM
Cropped and adjusted exposure, tone, and temperature in Lightroom