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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) shines bright while closest to the sun in gorgeous photo - Space.com

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) shines bright while closest to the sun in gorgeous photo - Space.com

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) shines bright while closest to the sun in gorgeous photo - Space.com
Jan 25, 2023 55 secs

Miguel Claro(opens in new tab) is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky.

Join Miguel here as he takes us through his photograph "Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) during Perihelion Revealing a Glowing Greenish Coma and Long Ion Tail."

(Image credit: Celestron)This long distance traveler not seen in 50,000 years is moving fast against the background starry sky, and on the night the photograph was taken it was located between the constellations of Hercules, Corona Borealis and Bootes, showing a faint visual magnitude of +7.3.

Although the comet will be in the closest point to our planet on Feb. 1 (known as perigee) and eventually until then could reach a naked eye magnitude, these kinds of objects are pretty unpredictable and we never know what surprises might be waiting for us.

For capturing this image, I used a Takahashi FSQ-106ED telescope at F/5 on an EM200 mount, auto-guided with a Asiair Pro wifi camera controller.

All of the images were captured from Cumeada Observatory in Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal.

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