Joel's laptop memory is full

 

Comet E3 : Data Captured on the 29th January 2023 from the JPO
using a tripod mounted Canon 600d DSLR. 

"Whilst cleaning out my laptop memory I came across some data from 2023. I ask Kurt to clean it up a bit and run it through some of our latest processing software. I rather liked this soft view of the comet heading out of the inner Solar System and against the backdrop of the stars of Ursa Minor" - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

"On the night of January 29, 2023, Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) could be seen moving quietly through the stars of the constellation Ursa Minor. This comet, visiting the inner solar system for the first time in about 50,000 years, displayed a glowing green coma caused by sunlight exciting carbon-based molecules in its atmosphere. Its faint tail stretched away from the Sun, shaped by the pressure of the solar wind. Against the backdrop of the Little Dipper, the comet appeared as a small but distinct traveler, reminding observers that the solar system is always in motion and that ancient objects still pass near Earth on their long journeys around the Sun.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has now receded far from Earth and faded dramatically from view. It currently lies deep in the southern sky and is only detectable with large telescopes, having dimmed to around magnitude +20 or fainter. Now more than a billion kilometres from Earth and continuing outward, it will spend thousands of years on its long trajectory before possibly returning to the inner Solar System—though gravitational influences and its extremely elongated orbit mean that its future path is uncertain and it may never come back at all".- Karl Segin outreach officer at the JPO.

See previous post from 2023 https://jodrellplankobservatory.blogspot.com/2023/02/long-period-comet-c2020-e3-ztf-in.html