Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1647
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C/2022 E3, jrtb
C/2022 E3
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C/2022 E3

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C/2022 E3

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The C/2022 E3 Comet!

I finally got a night of clear skies and got an hours worth of 100 second exposures.

Processing was crazy. Had to extract the stars and separately process each frame because the comet is moving so quickly.

Comets are celestial objects made of ice, dust, and rock that orbit the sun in highly elliptical paths. As they get closer to the sun, the ice and other volatile materials on their surface sublimate, creating a bright coma (a fuzzy atmosphere around the nucleus) and sometimes a tail. Comets can be visible from Earth with the naked eye.

Most comets appear green!

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C/2022 E3, jrtb