Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the constellation of Auriga on the night of 8 February 2023. The comet is the small cyan-coloured glow above centre. It was i
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the constellation of Auriga on the night of 8 February 2023. The comet is the small cyan-coloured glow above centre. It was in Auriga but heading south into Taurus and in front of the Taurus Dark Clouds here at centre. Mars is the bright orange object right of centre. At right are the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters, the latter with reddish Aldebaran. Other Messier-catalogue star clusters are in the frame: M36, M37 and M38 in Auriga and M35 in Gemini. The red emission nebulas in this part of the Milky Way also stand out, notably the California Nebula, NGC 1499, at top in Perseus, and the Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405, in Auriga at centre. At bottom is the large faint nebula around Lambda Orionis, or Meissa, in Orion. Capella is at top and Castor and Pollux are at left. Photographed from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada.
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