So after longing to see comet Neowise night after night as I began my journey into astrophotography I decided to venture out to Mukilteo beach with my gf. I kept looking for it from home, but stellarium indicated that it was below the tree line. Dang! So off we went! It was a refreshing change of pace for both of us. We found a log on the beach some distance away from some folks having a campfire, so there was some ambient light.
I setup my new skywatcher adventure pro mount with my canon t4i camera. I shot a total of 14 minutes (@ 30 second subs) with my intervolemeter. I used my EFS 18-135mm lens @ 122mm to zoom in a fair amount. Below is the result after using deepskystacker to merge all the images together, I used GIMP to tweak the levels, and curves to help bring out the trail detail.
Super cool!
Comet Neowise (7/19/20)
Comet Neowise live from the camera! We could see it in realtime!
Comet Neowise from 25mm focal length, you can see the ferry in the bottom left.
CNC Machine
Random aside - Digging up some old links, I stumbled onto my CNC machine blog post (which at the time I did on a forum).
https://www.cnczone.com/forums/cnc-wood-router-project-log/125139-cnc-engineering.html
