Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) low in the north-eastern sky at dawn on July 7, 2020, amid bright noctilucent clouds over a prairie pond. Even so, the tail is visible. This comet was discovered on 27th March 2020 by astronomers using the NEOWISE (Wide-Field Infrared Explorer) space telescope. It became visible to the naked eye by July 2020, and is one of the brightest comets since comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. It made its closest approach to the Sun on 3rd July 2020 at a distance of 43 million kilometres.