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Engineers on NASA’s #NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission have commanded the spacecraft to turn its transmitter off for the last time Thursday: nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-mis - this concludes more than 10 years of its planetary defense mission to search for asteroids and comets, including those that could pose a threat to Earth. The orbital height vs. time: x.com/planet4589/status/182168

NASANASA Mission Concludes After Years of Successful Asteroid Detections - NASAEngineers on NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission commanded the spacecraft to turn its transmitter off for the last

A memory from July 16th, 2020 - Comet Neowise on the NW sky. We could see it over a few consecutive nights about 2 hours after sunset..

Just started out learning photography around that time, didn’t have an editing software, other than my phone, so it’s noisy…
Blended image, taken from the same spot (my balcony) few seconds apart at 560mm and brought them a little bit closer to each other to fit the frame…

With the news that bright green #comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is approaching Earth, with visibility at it's best on 01 and 02 February, it reminds me of my trips to see comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) in 2020. I'm going to make the effort to find a dark spot to see this new comet, and hopefully take some photos like I did in 2020. It was so much fun!