Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) visited several times

Hello all together!

In the last nights short exposure series of C/2022 E3 (ZTF) were on the program again and again. Partly the structures in the tail were extremely fast moving and changed from image to image. So the averaging of several exposures is mostly a more or less big compromise. My observatory colleague Oliver created several animations from the images. On February 6 there was another very close encounter with the much fainter comet C/2022 U2 (Atlas).
Telescope: TAK Epsilon 130ED, QHY 268m.

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2023-02-06 - with C/2022 U2 (Atlas):

All the best,
Markus

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These are superb Marcus! :+1:

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Thank you very much, Roberto!

Regards, Markus

Really nice images! Congrats!

Thank you very much, Jose!

Here are two more images, from 07.02 and then from 11.02, when C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passed close to Mars.

07.02, 19x1 min L, QHY 268m, 2x2 binning:

Feb 11, 8x1 min R, 8x1 min B, 7x1 min G, QHY 268m, 2x2 binning:

All the best,
Markus

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