This shot concludes a highly weather favoured comet-hunting week at Lago Maggiore.
With heavy snowfalls covering most of central Europe during the past days, one clear night followed another here in the southernmost part of Switzerland.
Why 7.5 nights?
The comet moves so quickly across the sky that its transit time changes minus 1-1.5 hours every day, from early morning on 28 Jan to mid evening on 4 Feb.
Therefore my last two shots were captured on the same day, the 4 Feb 2023.
The first sequence was shot just after midnight, the second one during mid evening.
Now snowfalls are predicted here and I'm returning from this adorable Bortle 4 location to my slightly-more-challenging Bortle 8 homebase in central Vienna/Austria
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And shifting from a RASA8 here to a RASA11 there ...
I hope you enjoyed this 8-image-sequence of C/2022 E3 ZTF.
Amateur-like with startrails
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With some 1000+ 30sec-comet-frames in my computer, I intend to dig into post processing in the months to come.
Then maybe with less elongated stars
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