Waxing crescent moon and close-up of the Sea of Tranquility - 26.02.2023
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) with lots of galaxies in the background

The 2023 ‘green comet’ is now visible from Earth for the first time in 50,000 years

C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long period comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 2 March 2022. The comet has a bright green glow around its nucleus which is due to the effect of sunlight on its molecules, especially diatomic carbon and cyanogen.

The comet reached its perihelion on 12 January 2023, at a distance of 1.11 AU (166 million km; 103 million mi) and the closest approach to Earth will be on 1 February 2023, at a distance of 0.28 AU (42 million km; 26 million mi). The comet got brighter than magnitude 6 and is dimly visible with the naked eye as a small diffuse smudge under dark enough sky, but most viewers will need binoculars. 

Equipment used:
Mount: Dark Frame hypertuned EQ6
Telescope: TS65Q quadruplet Apo refractor
#QHY294M Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 10°C
#QHYCCD QHYCCD CFW3M-US 36mm filterwheel
#antlia 36mm 3nm Ha filter
#antlia 36mm LRGB filters
Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera
Qhyccd Polemaster

Software used:
Eqmod, SGP - Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Stellarium with stellariumScope, SharpCap for polar alignment

Date: 23.01.2023
Location: Hemel Hempstead, bortle 5
Antlia V-Pro Blue 36 mm: 15×120″(30′)
Antlia V-Pro Green 36 mm: 15×120″(30′
Antlia V-Pro Luminance 36 mm: 40×120″(1h 20′)
Antlia V-Pro Red 36 mm: 14×120″(28′)
Total Integration:
2h 48′

Stacked in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight, with the help of Noise and Star Xterminator, and Photoshop CC 2023

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Lunar occultation of Mars 18.12.2022

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Partial solar eclipse 25.11.2022

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Waxing Gibbous Moon
24.01.2021

24.01.2021 Waxing gibbous moon

Distance 400,649 Km

Illumination 77.9%

Age 10.8 days

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Mars and Moon conjunction
06 September 2020

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04.04.2020
Waxing Gibbous
Close-up of the moon
Illumination  81%
Age 11 days
Equipment used:
Eq6 Hypertuned gen2
AT106 LE
QHY183M with the Baader Red filter
1280x1024 ROI in SharpCap
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The Moon
1st quarter - 02.02.2020
Illumination  50%
Age: 7 days
Equipment used:
Eq6 Hypertuned gen2
AT106 LE
QHY183M with the Baader Red filter
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The Moon eclipse
21.01.2019

Single 5 sec ISO800 exposure

Equipment used:

TS65 quadruplet imaging telescope

Astromodified Canon 600D

Eq3 Pro mount

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Lunar impact during the eclipse
During the eclipse, the moon has been struck by a space rock. A lot of people captured the impact. I looked through all my eclipse photos around the time of the impact and guess what, I caught it too.
I was lucky enough to have taken a photo at that exact time. One second earlier or later and I would've missed it.
The moon is being struck by space rocks very often but an impact during the eclipse is probably a rare thing to happen. It might not look big but for me it is.
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