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njoker555 OP t1_j6bdcdf wrote

The clouds finally gave me a break to shoot this. This is my first real comet capture (I shot NEOWISE a few years ago but it was just a stock DSLR/lens shot).

I have a very quick timelapse at the beginning of this video covering the comet if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ApH5fxkWBI

You can find more of my videos at: https://youtube.com/Naztronomy

See this on Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/telzdd/

Equipment used:

  • Astro-Tech AT60ED with the 0.8x Reducer/Flattener on Advanced VX Mount
  • Mount controlled via Astroberry
  • ZWO ASI533MC Pro
  • Svbony 60mm guide scope with ZWO ASI120MM-Mini guide cam
  • 25x240sec with L-Pro
  • 15 darks
  • 30 flats for each session
  • 35 bias
  • I stacked the Comet in AstroPixelProcessor and stacked the stars in Siril to try and just get the stars stacked. I then made a composite in Photoshop.

Due to my exposure settings, I couldn't get rid of the comet in a star stack in APP and I couldn't get rid of the stars in Siril so I ended up combining them.

You can see a higher resolution at https://www.naztronomy.com/images/portfolio/fullscreen/Comet_c2022_e3_ztf.jpg

Happy to answer any questions! Thanks for looking!

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seffej t1_j6c006c wrote

I. Looked for about a hour maybe the sky is not dark enough, if I saw it wasn't like woe look at that, so I'm disappointed, maybe the sky will be better tomorrow, it's just too Damm cold outside

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njoker555 OP t1_j6c4jf5 wrote

Replying to seffej (#1,573,646)

I feel you about the cold! Definitely makes it much harder.

Did you try to find it naked eye or did you use a telescope/binoculars? I hear that the comet is pretty easy to spot with binoculars if you haven't tried that.

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apeonpatrol t1_j6c85jk wrote

how did it look with your naked eye? really hoping i can get a good view of this thing. im in the city in the NE area and its over our area every evening but light pollution is horrible.

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njoker555 OP t1_j6c8ubc wrote

Replying to apeonpatrol (#1,575,126)

Can't see it Naked Eye :( I'm right outside of Boston and even at its brightest, it'll be really hard to see it without at least binoculars.

And the weather has also been really bad. Terrible clouds and very bad transparency.

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apeonpatrol t1_j6e1m2r wrote

Replying to njoker555 (#1,575,236)

same location as well pretty much haha. im up until 4am at least every night so itll be way up in the sky when im looking. ill have to borrow my cousins telescope and see what i can see

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