C/2022 E3 (ZTF) - 2/1/23 (Matt)

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

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) - 2/1/23

Sometimes life prevents me from imaging on clear nights, and on those nights, I tell myself that the stars aren't going anywhere fast...Not the case with this comet! January was not a good month for astrophotography, but with a window of clear skies on Feb 1 I was able to get out and try my hand at a comet for the first time. I rolled the dice a bit with an experiment and attempted to "guide" on the comet by selecting the nucleus as the guide star for PHD2. My mount certainly didn't like it but PHD2 did a pretty good job of keeping the comet centered despite as it zoomed across the sky. I took a few exposures guiding on the stars as normal and attempted a blend in Pixinsight. The tail is visible but not very prominent. Between minimal exposure time (1 hour of 90" subs), a bright moon, and the image scale, I'm not too surprised. I may do things differently whenever the next comet rolls around, but I'm glad I was able to catch this one.

About a week prior to this, I observed the comet with binos and with my 8" dob. It was fun to be able to see this object a few different ways.

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Description: "Stationary" comet. For fun, this is my comet aligned stack with no pixel rejection and an APP auto-stretch.

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Astrometry.net job	7107531
PixInsight job	Y3K9R2R64Z488JHC5Z27NHD0XBAZFGDJ
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	06h21m52s.65
RA (top/left)	06h30m12s.37
RA (top/right)	06h19m45s.73
RA (bottom/right)	06h13m31s.38
RA (bottom/left)	06h23m50s.21

Dec (center)	+70°00′36″.5
Dec (top/left)	+70°01′01″.5
Dec (top/right)	+70°42′06″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+69°58′47″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°19′09″.2

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