For the best possible view, use binoculars.
You can see the comet with your naked eye. It’s located just above the horizon under the “Big Dipper.’’ Comet Neowise, the most impressive comet in nearly 25 years, is giving sky watchers a last chance to catch it. Start looking for the comet about an hour after sunset in the northwest sky. Comet Neowise as seen from the Czech Republic on the morning of July 6. A far better viewing perspective will be available in the evening sky starting around July 14, when it will appear low in the northwest sky (20 degrees from the horizon) for around 20 minutes. It’s a long-period comet that enters the inner solar system only once every 6,800 years or so, scientists say. According to NASA, Neowise was visible best in the hour before the dawn till the middle of the month but it can be best viewed as an evening object from mid-July onwards. But if you want to try your luck over the. Each night after today, it will be receding from the sun and dimming slightly.Ĭomet NEOWISE is Earth’s most spectacular comet since 2007 and is now observable low in the northern night sky all night long. Comet NEOWISE made its closest approach to Earth on July 22 and has grown dimmer and dimmer as it heads back toward the outer reaches of our solar system. Tonight, Wednesday, July 22, the comet will be at its closest to Earth (at 64 million miles. To see a photo of the comet NEOWISE taken by local resident Bob McBroom go to There have only been two other comets visible to the naked eye in the last 23 years - the Hale-Bopp comet in 1997 and the Comet McNaught in 2007. When a comet’s orbit brings it close to the sun, it heats up and spews dust and gases into a giant glowing head larger than most planets. When frozen, they are the size of a small town. Scientists say comets are “cosmic snowballs’’ of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the sun. The Comet NEOWISE has been dazzling sky-watchers in the northern hemisphere, and should continue to be visible through early August, it has been reported.
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