{"id":29296,"date":"2023-02-12T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T00:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29296"},"modified":"2023-02-12T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T01:00:55","slug":"comet-c-2022-e3-ztf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29296","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2022 E3 ZTF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A spate of bad weather followed by the bright moon kept me from imaging the comet until this week. A little late to the game and a fading comet. Still, I did get an image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The comet is currently high in the evening sky, an easy target.  An now that the bright Moon has left the evening sky this week and next represent a last chance to see the comet before it truly begins to fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comet ZTF has faded below 6th magnitude according to recent estimates, too faint for the unaided eye, but still spottable in binoculars and fairly easy to catch in a small telescope.  The comet remain well placed to spot for some time to come but will slowly fade, dropping to about 8th magnitude by the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=29297\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF-SF.jpg\" alt=\"Comet C\/2022 E3 ZTF\" class=\"wp-image-29297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF-SF.jpg 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF-SF-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF-SF-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Comet C\/2022 E3 ZTF<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Canon 6D with a TeleVue 76mm scope riding on an ZWO AM5 mount. 30 x 180s images processed in DSS. A version processed to remove stars does show a trace of the ion tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=29298\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF.jpg\" alt=\"Comet C\/2022 E3 ZTF no stars\" class=\"wp-image-29298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF.jpg 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Comet C\/2022 E3 ZTF with stars removed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of bad weather followed by the bright moon kept me from imaging the comet until this week. A little late to the game and a fading comet. Still, I did get an image. The comet is currently high in the evening sky, an easy target. An now that the bright Moon has left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comet C\/2022 E3 ZTF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[279,2863,1422,337],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230211-C2022E3-ZTF-SF.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29302,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29296\/revisions\/29302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}