I drove 160 miles to a Bortle Scale = 1 sky to take another shot at comet NEOWISE. Pretty happy I got to capture the ion tail (not the curvy tail, but the one extending straight from the core). The original plan was to set up in front of a lake (Lake Sumner) so that I could have the water as the foreground, and maybe even a reflection of the comet on the water. Alas, they seem to have closed the lake (which is a state park) because of COVID-19, so I couldn't get near the water at all. I wondered around (in bit of a panic because the comet was nearing rise), and just chanced upon this windmill in the pitch dark, and quickly set up in front of it for this shot :)
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