By Cathy Adams | 2023-02-05
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![Community photo entitled by Eliot Herman on 02/05/2023 at Tucson AZ](https://earthsky.org/upl/gravity_forms/6-d184048789a60d766a02a8e43117298b/2023/02/sw-E3-and-Capella.jpg)
On 02/05/2023 07:00 pm by Eliot Herman| Tucson AZ
One of those nights. Comet 2022 E3 ZTF was in close conjunction with Capella one of the brightest stars. It was nicely clear all day and even though it was a full Moon the prospects still looked good for photography. As darkness fell the clouds appeared and quickly blotted out the sky, this was not the weather prediction! Watching the sky a small hole in the clouds was present for about 120 sec. I took my shot, and this is the best 90 sec of that time. It was the only window available to capture the event.
Vixen VSD astrograph and a Nikon Z7II camera
Astropixel Processor stack of 9 x 10 sec @ iso 1000 and Photoshop