Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) ☄️ - a photo on Flickriver

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) ☄️

            It's a long-period comet that was discovered on the 2nd of March 2022 by the Zwicky Transient Facility astronomical survey at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. At that time, it has magnitude of 17,3 and was about 640 million km away. My first experience with this comet was on the 29th of August when the comet had about 11 magnitudes and I saw it through my 10-inch telescope. The comet flew through perihelion (closest point to the sun) on the 12th of January. It was the brightest at the beginning of February when it flew closest to the Earth (about 42 million km from Earth) and it was on the edge of visibility to the naked eye.

But the weather didn't allow me to take it sooner than a few days before, on the 8th of February. I decided to use my unmodified DSLR Canon EOS 760D and my longest lens, Sigma 135 mm f/2.8. I was lucky that the Moon rose about one hour after astronomical dusk so I managed to take one hour of relatively good-quality data. Because I took it from Bortle 7 class, I didn't expect so many details, but to my surprise, I caught even some dark nebulae in the background. Then there is also a faint nebula of Flaming Star in the bottom left corner, which unfortunately isn't such nice because of the unmodified camera, and in the top right corner, there is also a small nebula NGC 1579 called Northern Trifid. So I find this image successful and I hope to be able to take this beautiful green comet at least one more time in the future.

Canon EOS 760D (unmodified)
Sigma 135 mm f/2.8
AstroTrac TT 320

EXIF: 127x30s (1 hour and 3,5 minutes in total)
ISO 1600, f/5.6
Darks, flats, dark flats, biases

Processed in DSS, Siril, Photoshop
08/02/2023, Liberec (Bortle 7), the Czech Republic
   

Taken in: Bohemia / Liberecký kraj / Liberec / Nové Pavlovice (show map)

Taken on: February 10, 2023

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