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Community photo entitled  by Eliot Herman on 01/27/2023 at Tucson AZ

On 01/27/2023 by Eliot Herman| Tucson AZ

The morphology of Comet 2022 E3 ZTF is rapidly evolving as the perspective of the view from Earth changes as the comet moves from crossing the Earth's orbit around the Sun. It is this perspective that yielded the anti-tail which is now fading as the comet moves its position.

Vixen VSD 100 mm astrograph and Nikon Z7II camera

50 x 20 sec images stacked in Astropixel processor and then finished with Photoshop