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A fantastic comet…

… was announced. And auroras should also be visible. So we took advantage of the good but cold weather for the next few days, pointed our cameras at the horizon and waited doggedly. And waited and waited… until the comet supposedly set. We then consoled ourselves with the above cover picture of comet Neowise, which we were able to photograph four years ago………………

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  • Haha… Thomas, from photo, I suggest that you use a lens of about 200mm focus length, we tried AND won! About 3–4 seconds, then you can see it.
    And the strange ion tail, here some thought that recently solar wind is so strong that it is solar wind that blows at ion tail, also makes strong aurora, even last night aurora appeared in Beiijing!