Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) (Paul Nelson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam) · Contains: Solar system body or event

Powered byPixInsight

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

Powered byPixInsight

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

I've been wanting to capture Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) for several weeks, but had nothing but clouds any time it was above my trees. Finally early morning on Tuesday, January 31st I had clear skies and two hours between moonset and sunrise where the comet was visible from one corner of my yard. Captured with a Canon 5DIV and 500mm f/4L telephoto lens, controlled by an intervelometer and mounted on my vintage AP900HDA.

Final
Original
B

B

Title: Revision 1

Description: I was not convinced that I had gotten all I could out of these subs, so I entered them back into Astro Pixel Processor and ran them through the comet stacking registration routine. I had wondered if a lower kappa high setting would reject more star trails, so I dropped it significantly to 1.5 (I used the adaptive rejection algorithm) and the result was a much cleaner comet image. As a result, I was able to pull more out of the ion tail and the anti-tail before blending the stars back in.

Uploaded: ...

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7115342
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Revisions

B

Sky plot

Histogram

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Revisions

B

Sky plot

Histogram

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

Delete this revision?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information