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Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) as seen from the Blue Ridge Mountains outside of White Hall, Virginia on 20 July 2020. The image is an aligned and stacked average of five, 5-min exposures taken using a Nikon D750 DLSR camera with a 50 mm f /1.8 lens held on an equatorial tracking mount (B. A. McGuire). The image is approximately 29.3° × 22.3° in total. The 1° scale is indicated in the lower right corner, which corresponds to 3 × 104 km at the geocentric distance of the comet on this date. A finder chart for this image is available at https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/7997658# (Lang et al. 2010).

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