Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) from Boston, Nazmus
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) from Boston
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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) from Boston, Nazmus
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) from Boston
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The clouds finally gave me a break to shoot this. This is my first real comet capture (I shot NEOWISE a few years ago but it was just a stock DSLR/lens shot). 

I have a very quick timelapse at the beginning of this video covering the comet if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ApH5fxkWBI

You can find more of my videos at: https://youtube.com/Naztronomy

See this on Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/telzdd/


Equipment used:
* Astro-Tech AT60ED with the 0.8x Reducer/Flattener on Advanced VX Mount
* Mount controlled via Astroberry 
* ZWO ASI533MC Pro 
* Svbony 60mm guide scope with ZWO ASI120MM-Mini guide cam 
* 25x240sec with L-Pro
* 15 darks
* 30 flats for each session
* 35 bias
* I stacked the Comet in AstroPixelProcessor and stacked the stars in Siril to try and just get the stars stacked. I then made a composite in Photoshop. 

Due to my exposure settings, I couldn't get rid of the comet in a star stack in APP and I couldn't get rid of the stars in Siril so I ended up combining them. 

You can see a higher resolution at https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Comet_c2022_e3_ztf.jpg


Happy to answer any questions! Thanks for looking!

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