This is my first time imaging a comet. In this case Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). After struggling with stacking in Deep Sky Stacker (DSS) I switched to Pixinsight. I find the result quite pleasing. - Hope you too. :-)
As you can see, for the animation I had to skip some frames due to strong winds and some single blurry images.
The video covers 1h 5min of the comet travelling trough space.
At time of imaging (9th of Feb. 2023) the comet was around 55.72 Mio Km (or 0.372 AU) away from earth.
Since then the distance is increasing (Middle of May 2023 around 416,1 Mio Km (or 2.782 AU).
https://theskylive.com/how-far-is-c2022e3#:~:text=The%20distance%20of%20Comet%20C,ZTF)%20and%20arrive%20to%20us.
Imaging:
Exp.-length: 60sec
65 single images
Calibrated with darks, flats, dark-flats.
png. created in "Blink" module in Pixinsight and then gif. created in Video editing software.
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