Neowise Where Are You?

It's not often that I will stay up late at night to get a picture.  Mostly because no matter what time I go to bed, I always wake up at 4:00.  I have to be honest, I would do it for critters, but for a light in the sky?  Not so much.

So here I am, camped out on the back lawn, waiting.    And waiting.    And I waited some more.  It soon became clear that clouds were covering the suspected area and I was getting nowhere.

For whatever reason, the NEXT evening, it would be visible about 45 degrees to the West, right below the big dipper about an hour after sunset.  I camped out again in 95 degree heat.  No one said photography would always be a walk in the park.  

Here's my image.  Can you see it?  Me either.  I sat out there for two solid hours swatting little bugs and moths, to get a beautiful picture of the big dipper.  It really is there ... maybe if you click on the picture to make it bigger?  

Just for kicks, I did a 30 second image.  This is probably the closest I'm going to get to the Neowise comet.  It shows just how fast the earth is really moving.  In 30 seconds, it moved that much to make these stars look long like a comet.

There were some nice cloud formations ... this was another 40 second take.

Yes I stayed up AGAIN last night, to no avail.  When I try to figure out the timing with paper and pencil, I'm pretty sure it's visible, but at something like 11:30 at night.  Five hours sleep just doesn't get it for me, so here you go.  This is someone ELSE'S image taken over Mt. St. Helens in Washington.

It's a very cool picture of something they say you won't see again for 6800 years.  

What I DID get an image of was this very young coyote.   I like this better than the comet anyway!!  He came very early in the morning just as I happened by the window.  Their hearing is so good that the click of my camera stopped him mid swallow and he stared right at me.  Not the best of images since it was very dark and I was having a hard time getting the camera to focus.

One more quick drink and he was off.  He just didn't like the mad clicking as I took 20 pictures.

It's been way over the top hot, so staying inside is the game of the day.  I probably look out my window 150 times, you know, just in case something walks by.  And walk by it did!!!  More pictures tomorrow!!!