Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) New OSC Processing Method (Adam Block)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: Solar system body or event

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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) New OSC Processing Method

Link: https://www.adamblockphotos.com/c2022-e3-ztf1.html

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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) New OSC Processing Method

Link: https://www.adamblockphotos.com/c2022-e3-ztf1.html

This data comes from Drew Evans (see his image) who generously permitted me to use it as part of a tutorial which demonstrates a completely new OSC comet processing workflow.
This method features star removal with StarXTerminator (to minimize star residuals) AND Drizzle ! (Also includes many other incrementally important methods dealing with CometAlignment, Local Normalization and more.)

With this video..I *think* I can relax on the comet thing a little. I now have workflows for OSC, RGB mono and LRGB mono (using the other NEW Technique!)
as well as a workflow for the standard processing with CometAlignmentwithout SXT.

I know someone will ask for a Narrowband (Quadband) filter example next.

I tried to bring all of the power of PixInsight to bear on this comet data recently.
Goodbye ZTF.... I await the next comet now better prepared to process it!

Thanks again to Drew... he answered my call for some nice data instantly and it really helped. (It is available as part of the tutorial.)

Optics William Optics SpaceCat 51
Camera ZWO ASI2400MC Pro
Date January 25th 2023
Exposures 7 Hours (subexposures 120 sec)
Processing Pixinsight (new AdamBlockStudios method for OSC comet data)
Credit Line & Copyright Adam Block and Drew Evans (data)

-Adam

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	14h51m33s.48
RA (top/left)	14h28m25s.14
RA (top/right)	15h15m04s.49
RA (bottom/right)	15h17m08s.55
RA (bottom/left)	14h25m41s.79

Dec (center)	+63°49′21″.4
Dec (top/left)	+62°16′35″.9
Dec (top/right)	+62°20′43″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+65°06′41″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+65°02′05″.3

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