I still can't believe how lucky I got...

This felt so incredibly rewarding considering everything that happened beforehand. It was a wild story. It felt like everything was against me and trying to stop me from taking an image of the comet.
First of the weather. A huge field of high clouds covering Europe almost entirely for weeks! I didn't get a single hour of clear skies to image the comet from home and the Moon was getting brighter.
The only way to escape the clouds was traveling to the mountains. So I was scanning the entire google maps in northern Austria and Switzerland, to find a suitable low light location with clear view to the north and predicted clear skies which is in the reach of a 4hrs drive. But booking a trip to the Alps is a nightmare if the weather is this unpredictable. First it was said to be clear over the weekend. After planning everything to go on the weekend the forecast changed. The only day that was supposed to have clear skies now was Thursday. I was able to get 2 days off at work but my boyfriend didn't. He was only allowed to go if he shows up at work at lunch. But guess what, the forecast changed again and now Wednesday had the clear night. So I was asking friends if anyone would want to go with me (I really don't like to be alone at a new location in absolute darkness). But of course... on Tuesday the forecast changed once more and it was now supposed to be cloudy at my location entirely. So I quickly had to find a new one. Luckily we had friends in Switzerland which happen to live under dark skies and the forecast looked promising for Thursday. So I quickly asked if I was able to visit them the next day and they were happy to host my scope.
The next morning however, I found out that they had a clear view to the east, south and west but not north. And the comet was right next to Polaris...
So I had just a couple hours left to find yet another new location (which also provided me with power, since I didn't own a power station and my main goal was to photograph the comet with my new HEM44 and the new TSAPO106). I called a small inn which obviously was fully booked but they were kind enough to offer me power.
So I packed everything up and we were ready to leave.
As we arrived I noticed the entire street had one single street light. And you guessed it, it was right next to were I had to set up.
Then a lot of other new issues appeared. Setting up the big scope was a nightmare. I got it 4 weeks before but I wasn't able to test it due to the weather. So what I didn't know was that the HEM44 needed newer driver versions than my CEM70 so I had to update 3 drivers for it to work. It was already pitch black and the temperatures started dropping to -10°C. The battery of my laptop that controls the mount died because for some reason it didn't get power. The power issue I had this night was so weird and I still have no clue why some of my equipment lost power and it then suddenly started working again while everything else was fine the whole time. So I booted my laptop and guess what.... it started to update windows!!!! After waiting what felt like an eternity it was finally ready. But for some reason it didn't recognize the keyboard anymore. So I had to enter all the coordinates and configs with the touch screen. My fingers died twice due to the cold...
But eventually everything was working and the main scope was ready to operate.
So I had this plan of getting a shot of the comet with the mountains in the foreground (which also was the reason I called at that specific inn, because they were in the perfect spot for this). I had no energy left and I was shivering so much but I really wanted to try that. I pointed my Canon R6 with the Canon 50mm 1.8 STM north and took a shot a single shot of the stars and then a shot of the mountains with the lens wide open. I then put it on the Star Adventurer with my Rokinon 135 to take lots of 30s exposures of the comet. I also set up my Canon 77D to take a time lapse of this region which covers the same FOV. I didn't think of capturing any shooting stars, I was just trying to get some potential B-roll for a YouTube video I had in mind (in case you were wondering, my channel doesn't have any videos yet but maybe soon).
After waking up in the morning early (we hat to leave at 7am because my boyfriend had to be home at 11am) I noticed how the wind pushed the smoke of the chimney right down in front of my equipment. I checked the subs and half on them were affected...
Anyways, I packed everything up and went back home. This is when I looked through my time lapse and noticed this huge shooting star right between the two mountain peaks. My heart skipped a beat. It was at the perfect spot for my composition.
The data of the Rokinon looked amazing too (apart from the smoky subs). It shows a really sweet disconnection event in the tail. So I merged my 4 images together representing the actual size and position of the objects and here we are.
Hope you like it