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                                2020 July 17
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                            NEOWISE of the North
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Bill Peters

   Explanation: After local midnight on July 14 comet NEOWISE was [5]still
   above the horizon for Goldenrod, Alberta, Canada, just north of
   Calgary, planet Earth. In this snapshot it makes for an awesome night
   with dancing displays of the northern lights. [6]The long-tailed comet
   and auroral displays are beautiful apparitions [7]in the north these
   days. Both show the influence of spaceweather and the wind [8]from the
   Sun. Skygazers have [9]widely welcomed the visitor from the Oort cloud,
   though [10]C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is in an orbit that is now taking it out
   of the inner Solar System.

       Comet NEOWISE Images: [11]July 16 | [12]July 15 | [13]July 14 |
       [14]July 13 | [15]July 12 | [16]July 11 | [17]July 10 & earlier
                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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   8. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-parker-solar-probe-spies-newly-discovered-comet-neowise/
   9. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/comet-neowise-dazzles-at-dusk/
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2020_F3_(NEOWISE)
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