Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Taken by Mike Broussard on February 4, 2023 @
Maurice, Louisiana, USA
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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) taken last Friday night on Feb 3rd CST (Feb 4th, 2023, from 02:30-04:00 UT.) This is a 15x60 sec photo of the stars composited with a comet-only image which has 99 minutes of exposure using 1 minute sub-images.
The bright moon was near the comet and made getting the dim ion tail very hard. Luckily, I was able to fix most of that issue with a good flat calibration frame. There were still minor issues with the right side part of of the frame on one set of sub-images where the tail is and I actually had to dim it down a bit with the burn tool to fix that area.
A new camera was used which is a QHY294C-Pro. I had it mated with my Televue TV-85 telescope working at F/5.6 and 480mm of focal length and just a UV/IR filter.
Photographer's website:
https://blog.cajunastro.com
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