Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & NGC1647, Joon Ren
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & NGC1647

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & NGC1647, Joon Ren
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & NGC1647

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long-period comet that came from the Oort cloud into the Solar System. The bright green glow around its nucleus is caused by sunlight interacting with the comet's diatomic carbon/cyanogen compounds.

Grabbed the chance to image C/2022 E3 (ZTF) when it moved towards Auriga and Taurus closer to the equator. It happened to pass by open cluster NGC1647 in Taurus so a bit of luck there.

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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) & NGC1647, Joon Ren

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