Farewell to Neowise - comet Neowise on July 19 2020 Canvas Print

"Farewell to Neowise"
This image of comet Neowise was created from 35 sequential 20 second exposures, taken over about an hour period. This technique allowed the COLOR of the ion tail to finally show through in its glorious blue. There’s also a subtle green glow in front of coma which is “real”. There's also a distant galaxy (NGC 2841 in Ursa Major) to the right of comet, whose light took about 45 million years to arrive at earth and strike my camera sensor!

Taken 7/19/20, at about 10:30-11:30PM at York Prairie State Natural Area in Wisconsin. Pentax K-1, Rokinon 135mm f2 at f2.4, thirty five 20 sec exposures at ISO1600.

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...