{"id":10263,"date":"2023-02-15T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10263"},"modified":"2023-02-15T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:46:55","slug":"comet-c-2022-e3-ztf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2023\/02\/comet-c-2022-e3-ztf\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2022 E3 (ztf)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230214_201835-hyades-comet6_CanonT7i_10s_F4.5_f130.0mm_ISO12800.jpg-IMG_4739-1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230214_201835-hyades-comet6_CanonT7i_10s_F4.5_f130.0mm_ISO12800.jpg-IMG_4739-1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230214_201835-hyades-comet6_CanonT7i_10s_F4.5_f130.0mm_ISO12800.jpg-IMG_4739-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230214_201835-hyades-comet6_CanonT7i_10s_F4.5_f130.0mm_ISO12800.jpg-IMG_4739-1024-299x199.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230214_201835-hyades-comet6_CanonT7i_10s_F4.5_f130.0mm_ISO12800.jpg-IMG_4739-1024-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230214_201835-hyades-comet6_CanonT7i_10s_F4.5_f130.0mm_ISO12800.jpg-IMG_4739-1024-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I am behind the lot of you, in that last night was my first look at Comet C\/2022 E3 (ztf).<\/p>\n<p>Kim was also out using the 20cm dobsonian telescope and let me take a peek.  Hmmp.. small faint fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p>My Mark I eyeballs just aint what they used to be.<\/p>\n<p>So  I brought out a tripod, the Canon T7I DSLR and the stock 75-300mm zoom lens, manually focussed, manually triggered the shutter and took a series of 10 sec exposures at ISO 12800.<\/p>\n<p>This attached image is one of the last one I took as I was getting cold, outside, in pajamas \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the Hyades and Aldebaran near the centre and a green fuzzy off to its left.  The lens was at about 105mm and NO tracking remember!<\/p>\n<p>I also took a series of darks and hope to try various deep sky stacking and processing software this week, just to see what the heck the rest of  you are doing! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I am behind the lot of you, in that last night was my first look at Comet C\/2022 E3 (ztf). Kim was also out using the 20cm dobsonian telescope and let me take a peek. Hmmp.. small faint fuzzy. My Mark I eyeballs just aint what they used to be. So I brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10266,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions\/10266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}