dev2020208_20230207-223954_stacklist3v2
This was hard to fully capture in at the edge of urban skies, and this is almost 3 hours' worth of exposure the night before comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) made its closest approach to Earth. I think perspective made it actually easier to capture the ion tail (the straight line coming off the right side) rather than the dust tail (the faint arc on the bottom). The green, however, is very apparent, due to the molecules that are evaporating off the surface of the 1 km-wide snowy dirtball that came in to our region of the Solar System from almost 3000 times farther away from the Sun than Earth.
dev2020208_20230207-223954_stacklist3v2
This was hard to fully capture in at the edge of urban skies, and this is almost 3 hours' worth of exposure the night before comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) made its closest approach to Earth. I think perspective made it actually easier to capture the ion tail (the straight line coming off the right side) rather than the dust tail (the faint arc on the bottom). The green, however, is very apparent, due to the molecules that are evaporating off the surface of the 1 km-wide snowy dirtball that came in to our region of the Solar System from almost 3000 times farther away from the Sun than Earth.