Astro

Comet C2022/E3 (ZTF) or the green comet as mentioned in the news was captured on the night of Friday (1/27) from my front yard. The relative movement of the comet over that time can be seen as the background stars made startrails. In the second image, the processing was done a little differently to suppress the stars and that makes the comet’s dust tail more prominent.

Different processing to dim the startrails and bring out the dust tail of comet ZTF more clearly. Here is the photo with first round of processing.

Comet C/2022 E3(ZTF) This is a stack of 30 sec exposures over 24 minutes. It moves quite a bit with respect to the stars around it. The green colored halo is quite nice but you can’t make out the color with naked eyes. I didn’t think I’d be able capture the long wispy ion tail I had seen in other photos but it showed up.

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Capturing the green comet tonight.

Got my Veil nebula photo printed. This is the first time for me to get an acrylic print. It was expensive but I see why that was so. It seems like the print is mounted under a clear ~4mm thick piece of plastic (acrylic?!). It looks great. Can’t wait to put it on a wall.

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Here are last two pictures in this series from Cygnus:
19. Western Veil nebula
20. Butterfly nebula around Sadr

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One of our closest and farther away neighbors.
17. Lunar eclipse
18. Andromeda galaxy

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Two views of Elephant trunk nebula
15. Wide angle with a DSLR (Nikon Z6)
16. Cropped view with an astro camera ASI533MC-Pro

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Two views of a large nebula complex in Cygnus -
13. Cygnus wall from North American nebula
14. Pelican nebula

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A pair or large emission nebulae from Cassiopeia.
11. Heart nebula
12. Soul nebula

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Two wide angle images from August 2022.
9. Milky Way galaxy shot in Maine
10. Startrails from my front yard

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5. Rosette nebula from Monoceros captured in March 2022

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3. Bode’s galaxy (M81) and Cigar galaxy (M82) from Ursa Major
4. Pinwheel galaxy (M33) from Triangulum

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1. The Great Orion Nebula (M42)
   
2. Flame and Horsehead nebulae
   
These two are from Jan 2022.
   

Great Conjunction of 2020. Jupiter and Saturn close together in the sky on December 21, 2020.

Nebulosity (IC 1318) seen around the star gamma Cygni (Sadr) at bottom right. This area is aka Butterfly nebula. They appear together but the nebula and the star cluster at right edge are 3 times farther than Sadr.

WO ZS61 - ZWO ASI533MC-PRO - LeXtreme - 50 x 3 min - SIRIL - PS #astro

Pacman nebula (NGC 281) in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This bright emission nebula is at 9200 light years away in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

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It was cloudy last night when the Moon-Mars conjunction happened but then cleared out early in the morning. When I woke up Moon and Mars were shining brightly in the sky. #astro