Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Boötes (Boo)
C/2022 E3 (ZTF), Observatório Astrográfico do Boqueirão
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

C/2022 E3 (ZTF), Observatório Astrográfico do Boqueirão
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) Comet, discovered in March, 2nd 2022 by the Zwicky Transient Facility, after his perihelion and showing the an ion tail with particles ionized by the icy core, developing a yellowish coma, and having a geenish core resulted from the carbonic composition of the chemical elements of the core. At the date of this post, the comet is in the NE position, around the Hercules constellation, just bellow the tail of the Big Dipper and it will have his maximum proximity to Earth in February, 2nd, 2023.
Shooted in Terceira Island, Azores at the dawn of January 20th, 2023.

RGB (CFA + Baader UV-IR Filter 180s x 28F/5.6 - Gain 1200 - Bin 1x1 - Focal Lengh 300mm

The Moon was in waning crescent at 2,87% of ilumination, in a Bortle scale of 4 (20.94 Mag/Arc.Se

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF), Observatório Astrográfico do Boqueirão

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