Friday, July 17, 2020

Comet Neowise C/2020 F3 : Colorcoding Nucleus


Earlier this week I made some pictures of the naked eye comet Neowise C/2020 F3. The nucleus of the comet is estimated to be 5km in diameter. I tried to visualise the nucleus by colorcoding the comet based on brightness of each pixel. The result is a colored picture with the nucleus being black and surrounded by less bright pixels using colors grey, purple, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan and blue.