Fabrizio Pinto
Urla Iskele (Izmir), Türkiye
02/02/2023
01:00 am

Equipment Details:

Canon 500D Rebel with Sigma 70-300 lens (133 mm) F/4.5 6400 ISO; 50 exposures of 1 sec shutter speed on a tripod without tracking. DATE-OBS= '2023-02-01T21:58:37' UTC

Post-processing Details:

Calibration with DeepSkyStacker from 50 dark (1 sec)/bias (1/4000 sec)/flat field (1/2000 sec) frames; Center (RA, hms): 06h 25m 09.904s, (Dec, dms): +70° 18' 01.654"; Radius: 5.515 deg; Pixel scale: 18.7 arcsec/pixel (Astrometry.net). The DeepSkyStacker Autosave.tif 32 bit RGB file was transformed to 8 bit jpg B&W (mono). Some Photoshop curving used to enhance contrast.

Image Details:

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was quickly identifiable in the raw images at approximately magnitude brighter than 5 (compare to HD 42818 to its immediate 10 o' clock). Despite being in naked eye range on an usual night, the nearby Moon illluminated at 87% and a persistent variable cloud layer on this cold night (T=2C) did not make it possible for me to spot it. The green tint was more obvious than on previous nights in the raw files.

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