First ever Comet: C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

[Stephane]

Hi all,

Last night I had a bit of fun gathering a whopping 25 minutes on the "Green Comet". Processing it was a unique experience. Having more time would have been great, but this will have to do for now for my first ever comet image.

Comments welcome.

Clear skies,
Stéphane

[alan meehan]

Great shot

[SB]

Hi Stephane
That’s very good!

How did you manage to stack the individual subs as the comet moves relative to the other stars so quickly. I notice the relative movement in a 20 second sub for example meaning that when I stack the individual subs the comet image blurs against nice round stars.

Chris

[AdamJL]

Really nice work there, Stéphane! Especially for a first ever comet shot

[Garyh]

Good job, can just make out the Ion tail! How long were you subs. I went for 2min and accepted 15 or so arc seconds of blurring..

[Stephane]

Thanks for the nice comments everyone! Hopefully I can try again with a bit longer time in the coming days or weeks.

Chris, I went through a painstakingly long workflow in Pixinsight thanks to a recent tutorial by Bray Falls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKAqQ7xkC8). It worked for me, but takes ages to apply star removal to every single sub.

Gary, I rather accidentally did a mix of 1 minute and 2 minute subs. The one minute subs were supposed to be tests, but they looked quite nice, so I threw them in!

[OzEclipse]

Hi Stephane

Nice work. You've picked up the ion tail nicely.

Joe

[Dave882]

Great shot Stephane!

[Sharnbrook]

Well done Stephane, and lots of Stars to go with it. A very Green hue as well.

[ahmed_haider]

Looks great Stephane well done!