Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & C/2022 U2 (ATLAS), mhx
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & C/2022 U2 (ATLAS)

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & C/2022 U2 (ATLAS), mhx
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & C/2022 U2 (ATLAS)

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My first attempt at (digital) comet photography (I did photograph Hale-Bopp on slide film back in the days). Didn't expect much to come out of shooting from a Bortle 8 zone, but then fellow astrophotographer @pwagner pointed out that I might actually have captured two comets. This was pure luck, I was just pointing my scope at C/2022 E3 on the first clear night in weeks, and kept shooting. Given the short exposures of 30", C/2022 U2 was incredibly hard to spot and so stacking was a real challenge. ASTAP's comet annotation feature was a real life-saver, and even then it took a few hours to get things right.

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & C/2022 U2 (ATLAS), mhx