As I noted earlier, my attempts to photograph Comet NEOWISE didn't go well at all, and I really had no adequate explanation. Happily, my son Noah got great shots with his new mirrorless Canon, so that was good. But I wanted some of my own, and, try as I might with a camera and lenses that used to be able to capture decent astrophotographs, I couldn't get my dSLR to bring the comet and the stars into sharp focus. I knew I was running out of time, because NEOWISE was growing dimmer and further away. I had one more idea to try: an ancient, but tried and true Nikkor 50mm f1.4 lens. This one, manual everything, is more than half-a-century old, and it was my go-to lens when I first started using an SLR. It rarely let me down then, and, praise the Lord, it didn't let me down this evening, when the skies were reasonably clear and the comet was hanging just below the Big Dipper.