Cosmic Church Visitor - Comet NEOWISE and noctilucent clouds above abandoned ND Big Coulee Church Wood Print

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Here is the beautiful comet NEOWISE photographed at about 3:30 AM on July 12, 2020 above the abandoned Big Coulee Lutheran church in Ramsey County, ND, on my third (and favorite) shooting attempt. This view is looking north northeast. The comet is now zooming away from the sun and is noticeably dimmer than even two nights before, but is still very beautiful, and will be visible in the evening sky now for a week or two. It won't be back for about 7000 years. This photograph is taken with a 135mm lens so comet appears somewhat larger than it would "by eye". I'll post another image as first comment to this post taken with a normal 50mm lens which gives a good approximation of "what you see by eye" when standing in same spot.

The beautiful glowing clouds above the church are called Noctilucent clouds (meaning "night shining" in Latin), and are created by dust and ice crystals in the upper atmosphere of Earth. They're somewhat rare (only visible during astronomical twilight about 1...

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...