Comet: Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
Stars:
47 Uma (Chalawan), 49 Uma, 51 Uma, 55 Uma, 57 Uma, ω UMa, Alula Australis, Alula Borealis
HR Stars: 4264
HD Stars: 94225, 94792, 98682, 98823
Planets: Jupiter 

Location: Home
Date: 2020-07-25
Time: 10:05 PM - 11:00 PM ADT

Equipment: Visual, Binoculars 10x42 IS
Seeing: not recorded
Transparency: not recorded
SQM: not recorded
Temperature: 20° C (at 10:27 PM ADT)

At 10:10 PM, I had looked out our bedroom window to discover most of the sky was clear so decided to take a chance at observing NEOWISE once more. I knew generally where where we had looked the night before. The cloud cover hid most of that part of the sky so that finder stars were out of the question. I didn't use SkySafariPro (needed updating). So, I searched along the lower edge of the clouds and found it!

I drew the comet (sort of) and then placed the stars around it that I could see. Then looking further away, I noticed the semi circle created by 51 Uma, 49 UMA, 47 Uma (Chalawan), HR 4264, and ω UMa. I could even make out HD 94792 and HD 944225 (not placed in the sketch) that were perpendicular to the semi-circle. I now knew where it was!

The comet had shifted a few degrees further west and was now adjacent to the rear leg of the Great Bear. It was really cool to add this location to the plot. With today being 5 months until Christmas, this felt like an early present, one you hope to see but know the chances are quite slim.

  Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) in Ursa Major

Jupiter
Time: 
10:40 PM
I located Jupiter. Interestingly, Io and Ganymede were on opposite sides of Jupiter but Europa and Callisto were nowhere to be found.

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