C/2022 E3 (ZTF) (Rupesh Varghese)

C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

This was my take on the Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). This is one of the times when I wish I had less focal length to get it's incredibly long tail. It's about 2 hours and 4 minutes. I have 61 frames of LRGB each at 30 seconds each. This was done under Bortle 7 skies so I want more time, but it rose late and the sun came up quick

This was kind of complicated to process. It could be from my lack of processing knowledge, but I think I made it work.

I used WBPP to calibrate, register and integrate the images.
I have LRGB masters which show the stars all aligned, but has a trailing comet.
Then I took the registered images, and then used comet alignment for each of the filters. This is where I did what I think was the only way I could get the comet to work. I did a batch processing of all the comet aligned pictures in StarXterminator to remove the stars and leave me with individual starless images of the comet.
I then integrated the starless images to get the LRGB masters for the comet
I then proceeded to process the Comet as any other target with the following steps

DBE
PixelMath to combine RGB
SPCC
NoiseXTerminator
EZ STF
Curves Transformation
LRGB Combination
HDRMT

I still had the original integrated images with the stars and did most of the same steps as above. I also did BlurXTerminator to get a bit sharper stars as well.
I stretched the image and then removed the stars using StarXTerminator.
I then did PixelMath to merge the Stars and the Starless Comet image together to get the above image.

I hope it makes sense.

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RA (center)	15h43m17s.60
RA (top/left)	15h47m24s.48
RA (top/right)	15h39m15s.76
RA (bottom/right)	15h39m15s.83
RA (bottom/left)	15h47m16s.61

Dec (center)	+42°54′46″.4
Dec (top/left)	+43°23′33″.10
Dec (top/right)	+43°24′33″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°25′32″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+42°24′23″.9

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