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Eliot Herman
Tucson AZ
01/27/2023

Equipment Details:

Vixen VSD 100 mm astrograph and Nikon Z7II camera

Post-processing Details:

50 x 20 sec images stacked in Astropixel processor and then finished with Photoshop

Image Details:

The morphology of Comet 2022 E3 ZTF is rapidly evolving as the perspective of the view from Earth changes as the comet moves from crossing the Earth's orbit around the Sun. It is this perspective that yielded the anti-tail which is now fading as the comet moves its position.

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