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Community photo entitled  by Nikhil Shahi on 07/19/2020 at Kanab, Utah, USA

On 07/19/2020 11:15 pm by Nikhil Shahi| Kanab, Utah, USA

After shooting the comet on Saturday, I wanted to take one more shot of the comet, but with perspective - the prior shot was in the same vertical plane. So despite being up all night, for the past 5 nights (three of which were ruined by clouds at night), with only 4 hours of sleep daily, I drove the 130 miles back to the hoodoos to try and find a composition that might work, giving me the perspective I desired. I finally found this shot, was super happy and waited for the comet to show up at night. The comet did show up, but so did the clouds - I was really worried about the clouds again covering up the comet and ruining my shot. But I think the cloud gods took pity on me and the clouds actually stood still until I finished taking my shots. I am finally happy with my NEOWISE composition as I really wanted to highlight Utah's beauty, with the comet in the background.

Nikon D850 and Nikon 70-200mm E Fl lens

Dual exposure - foreground taken at dusk and comet NEOWISE taken at night. NEOWISE exposure is 9 images stacked together to reduce noise.