Binocular comet ZTF, Helsinki

Labor profit. Up until now, the clouds have won, but now as the evening darkened, it looked promising. But as darkness fell, didn't a thin layer of upper cloud gauze also begin to rise into the sky. An almost full moon illuminated the sky in competition with the city lights, and the transparency was not commendable anyway. Without Stellarium and the lucky chance that this particular evening the comet was close to Capella and that the fire had already started at dusk, the comet would have been missed tonight as well.

First, confirmation of the place with the harbor mile, and then with four hundred and fifty pictures. However, one must be satisfied with the end result: this comet has also been seen. In these conditions, you can hardly get better than this with standard camera optics. It doesn't look like a bad guy here, and there is no idea about the shape or size of the tail.

The first image is a somewhat cropped image taken with a 400 mm lens, the second is a 100 mm image from which I originally located the comet. Capella can be seen on the right side of the picture.

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Binocular comet ZTF - 4.2.2023 at 18.15 - 4.2.2023 at 20.00 Helsinki Observation number 111858