APOD: 2021 July 31 - Remembering NEOWISE

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Saturday, July 31, 2021 entitled "Remembering NEOWISE."

Posting a memory of a comet passing by is somewhat strange except that is APOD after all :-)

Image: Remembering NEOWISE - Image Credit & Copyright - Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava

APOD background
"Explanation: It was just last July. If you could see the stars of the Big Dipper, you could find Comet NEOWISE in your evening sky. After sunset denizens of the north could look for the naked-eye comet below the bowl of that famous celestial kitchen utensil and above the northwestern horizon. The comet looked like a fuzzy 'star' with a tail, though probably not so long a tail as in this memorable skyview recorded from the Czech Republic on July 23th, 2020, near the comet's closest approach to planet Earth. Photographs of C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) often did show the comet's broad dust tail and fainter but separate bluish ion tail extending farther than the eye could follow. Skygazers around the world were delighted to witness Comet NEOWISE, surprise visitor from the outer Solar System."

If a comet could talk and listen, this might be a song it would appreciate :-)

See you later alligator - Bill Haley and Comets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hb66FH9AzI
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter LTC (Join to see) MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Sgt Albert Castro PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Samuel Kermon SSG Franklin Briant A1C Riley SandersGySgt Thomas Vick CPL Douglas Chrysler SP5 Geoffrey Vannerson Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen GySgt Jack Wallace 1SG Steven Imerman MSgt James Clark-Rosa SGT (Join to see) SSG Derrick Iozzio

Looks like the comet was poured out of the big Dipper Maj William W. 'Bill' Price , have a great Saturday sir.

The Big Island of Hawaii is one of them. They're trying to build a 30-meter telescope atop Mauna Kea but the native Hawaiians are adamantly opposed because they say it's an affront to their ancient gods, especially Madame Pele. . . .