Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  4 Aur  ·  NGC 1778  ·  The star 1 Aur  ·  The star 2 Aur  ·  The star ω Aur
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF), Stephan Schäfer
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
C/2022 E3 (ZTF), Stephan Schäfer
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

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Description

The 'green' comet - imaged with a 6D and an Epsilon-130 under a bright moon. But it was the only chance I had...
Using the Orbitals-Plugin in NINA helped a lot with positioning. But I just guided on the stars and not on the comet.
Processing was done in PixInsight using two stacks, one with the stars and one with only the comet. The starless stack was created by applying StarXTerminator on all registered subframes.
Biggest challenge then was to get rid of the background artefacts in the integrated comet image, but with some filtering and denoising while protecting the comet with a mask I eventually ended up with a decent background.
Careful stretching and combining of the two stacks resulted in the final image.
Looking forward to the next comet...

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