I Took a Picture of the GREEN COMET Not Seen in 50,000 Years!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Photographing Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF
This "green comet" is rare because it hasn't been seen since the stone age! Its orbit around the sun is so massive, that it will be another 50,000 years before it returns again. (So maybe take a look while you can).
Currently, it is not visible to the naked eye in the night sky, so use a pair of binoculars, or a telescope to see it. Use a stargazing app on your smartphone to locate the comet, and point your telescope in that direction. (You SHOULD be able to find it!)
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I’ve been out multiple nights with binoculars but I still haven’t found it. It’s amazing how people are making such amazing photos of it!
Try using a app the shows you the night sky it might help you find it easier
Should be quite easy to find if good sky and no (or little) moon.
Me too, very hard to find. Bortle 8 backyard with binocs and apps, but couldn’t find it.
Had a quick go as well, couldnt see it. Well, i might have but couldnt say it was the comet or not :P Manage to capture with both cellphone and dslr/kitlens tho.
Same! Finally got cloudless nights. Using apps and media for location and still no dice. Super dissapointed.
This man is the sole reason that I got into astrophotography. I've just started with a dslr and tripod and have gotten some great photos. Thank you Trevor.
Thank you! That means a lot
Quran 112
The comet name is C/2022 E3 ZTF. Each letter holds a significant meaning. C representing it to be a non-periodic comet. Е3 represents the month it was discovered, which is March. 2022 represents the year of discovery and ZTF is the observatory that observed it.
Comments aren't always full of inane cack. I learned something interesting. Ty
Learned smthng new ty
this is what Elon Musk is gonna name his next kid
@Funkability615 💀
I have tried so hard to see this thing but my weather has been clouds and snow every night. Thanks for this experience, Trevor
@@FUNNYMEMECHANNEL123 me too! I never get to see things that are around due to clouds or it is not viewable in my area. Sad
Yeah, for me, nothing but clouds and rain here.
I had clear wheather but no telescope poor me😭
Love the touch of emotions in this video. Including other astrophotographers at the end is very nice. I like that you maintain the backyard feel of the equipments, not going far away from average backyard hobbyists
Thanks!!! My weather here has shut down any attempts to see this thing. Again, thank you!!!!
Yeah same 🫤It was completely cloudy for me
Same why does this always happen
My case was pretty different I didn't even noticed there was a building in the direction of the comet
@@exrjpgff8202 lol
Same man except for tonight (hopefully) let’s all have a quiet minute for the people who missed this😔
Nice one Trevor, knew you'd grab this one. It is moving at one heck of a rate against the stars. The green comes from Dicarbon, two carbon atoms stuck together; the green wavelength light is emitted as they are split apart by the sun. I believe the Dicarbon is formed from organic material and by solar action as the comet gets closer to the Sun. Great inspiring video as ever and I've not managed to see it with binoculars either, it is quite faint.
I would also add one thing to your very interesting post: the comet is only 1 kilometer in size vs Hale-Bopp which was I believe 38 kilometers in size. I watched Hale-Bopp over multiple nights, it was totally spectacular! Btw, using my Pentax 20x60 binoculars I could not see C3 either. However I have photographed it. Clear sky’s everybody!
I'm so happy that YOU managed to capture this one in the life type of comet ☄️❤️
I tried yesterday here in the Balkans, in Serbia....but clouds didn't move the whole night unfortunately. My girlfriend and I traveled 300km to a remote place in the heart of my country but unfortunately didn't capture anything...will continue the hunt though ❤️🤞🏼 Best of luck to everyone trying to photograph this amazing comet❤️
Give up now its 🛸 👽
I've been watching it where I live in Northern California with a 5" Newtonian, it's been about as bright as the Andromeda Galaxy appears, just a smudge in the sky. I've got way too much light pollution to see a tail, it was my first comet that I've observed so I was still excited! Thanks for the video!
Spectacular. The weather was not really allowing me to see anything, so I'm glad you were able to capture it :)
Thank you, Tim!
Thank you Trevor for inspiring me to stay up late at night photographing this beautiful universe. All thanks to you I have found my passion, and found my true love for space. Thank you
It is my pleasure - we are cut from the same cloth! Clear skies
@@AstroBackyard Тревор а что за музыка играет в начале ролика.
When it comes to astronomy, you’re my favorite content creator. You make it seem very accessible and interesting. And you have great production quality. I appreciate the time and effort that goes into filming and editing each video. Thank you so much.
I really liked this video, including your philosophical comments relating to comets' brief visits and nothing lasts forever. Nice your wife got up to see it. I just wish she had the joy of sweeping it up in binoculars like comet hunters have done for years. Thank you.
You are amazing man. Love your enthusiasm. 9:15. If I told my wife not to stand in front of it on video, me and the telescope both would be sleeping under the stars watching the green comet.
I got a descent shot of it about a week ago. I used a C-11 with Hyperstar and an ASI294MC camera. I stacked (10) 60 second subs, no darks or flats....it was pretty low in the sky at the time, we were lucky to catch it in Arizona. Clear Skies!
It is super hard to find with binos, but my local Astronomy Society pinpointed it so we could all see it in their 18 inch Schmidt Cassegrain! Thank you Westport Astronomical Society, and thank you Astrobackyard for sharing your adventure with us!
Couldn't find it the first night... Cloudy tonight. But your video and the way you describe the comets means so much to me. I don't think my people around me understand the significance of it. And us as humans. 🌠 So glad I found your video.
Darn, you're one hell of a lucky guy. I got prepped up yesterday but clouds and the weather decided to cross my plans...snowy weather for the next few days here in Europe =(
Great video, thanks! But just to comfort your wife: Although I knew exactly where it was I never saw it through my binoculars too. But I never took the time to get my eyes really adjusted to the night since I was going in and out while taking the pictures from the balcony of the hotel in the ski resort in Tirol Austria we are at right know ⛷ ☃❄. But I caught it in camera, with my dslr, a tripod and the stock 70-300 lens at about 250mm, loved it! Now it's snowing, that's fine for a winter vacation too 😅.
Edit: Thanks to your video a re-did the stacking, I hadn't thought of it's fast movement 🙈 ... and I really like it! 45 pictures, no dbf-frames, but I'm really happy - and reading other comments I got really lucky to even have gotten a chance 🤩!
Nicely done Trevor!! Don't fret Ashley, I couldn't find it visually either lol
Trevor, you are the one who made me have some interest in astrophotography! Thank you for it, and I love you videos so much 🔭🌌
She's not alone in not seeing it. After many random shots with a camera and different lenses, I finally found a tiny roundish smudge in a couple shots. Awesome work Trevor👍👍
I was blown away watching the international space station fly past for the first time. Since then I've seen it many times here in the UK and every time it's really exciting! No telescope required - you can see it clearly with the naked eye if there are no clouds to obscure the view.
Thanks for that Trevor, you have motivated me to give it a go. Minus 11 and the other side of midnight I do admire your dedication - have you not got a permeant observatory yet? Did I not see you using an dome in one of your videos. Respect to anybody who can go through setting up and breaking down their rig each night. Thanks again for the video.
Thank you, thank you and other photographers of the skies for capturing this rare event! Much appreciated! Thank you for sharing!🌠
Nice job Trevor! We'll hopefully get a chance Down Under to capture it around the 10th Feb, but it is getting further away, so may not be too spectacular. By the way, your Orion was inside down ;)
Fingers crossed!
I had the privilege to see this comet for myself.. It's an amazing experience.
Beautiful images, Well Done!!! My Mum and Dad woke my sister and I up to go out and see the magnificent Bennett Comet in 1969! It started my love of astronomy and astro-photography - particularly comets! I will never forget it, it is imprinted in my brain for life!!
Actually comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) may not return. It may be propelled into interstellar space after this orbit.
Some estimates predict that it will return in several million years.
Who knows? Depends on the assumptions and initial conditions and measurements.
Great shots of this unique and magnificent cosmic nomadic stone. Here in Australia we must wait a few more days.
I read the same, you are correct. This comet took 50,000 years to travel from the Oort cloud and may escape our solar system.
Great work Trevor👍 You’ve inspired me to get out there and give it a go! But then you inspired me to get into astrophotography in the first place, can’t thank you enough, I’ve made a lot of friends in this awesome hobby of ours and it’s all down to you😀 Thanks and clear skies!
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I love the fact that Trevor and I get the same weather patterns. I was out imaging as well and I was thinking I bet a new Astrobackyard coming. This winter sucked by the way!
Nice shot 😍
I’m getting frustrated with the processing on this one, my first comet 🍒💥
How lucky you are to have a partner who appreciates your hobby, a lot of us out here have partners who just don’t get it.
Keep on inspiring, thank you 🙏🏼
Man, that one at 8:06 is incredible. They all are actually. Awesome work!
the look on rudy`s face when you said nothing lasts forever 😂 priceless
Nice Trevor I've been waiting to see if you caught it. Thanks I spotted it 3 nights ago with binoc's then set up my Maksutov Cat. scope and took a better look.
Been following you for a while, and followed your recommendations for a starter kit, the star adventurer 2i and Canon rebel t7, I managed to get a rather mediocre shot of the comet, as I only had about 15 minutes of a window to do so, but it's my picture of something we will never see again, and I'm happy you put the spark in me to do it
Sweet! I found that DSS did a good job. I stacked like normal which gave me just the stars and I removed the faint blur from the comet. Then I did another stack tracking the comet only and removed the star trails. I refined both tif’s then combined. Worked out nice! I posted my result on your thread as CryptoKnight. I know I did get tail data and will try again to reveal it better in a new final image later
Thanks for the great images and time lapse!
I've tried to find it once so far to no avail. The rest of the nights I wanted to: *Man yells at clouds*
Will give it another go tonight.
There hasn't been a comet more hyped since the Hail Bopp took the Nike crowd on a ride into eternity. It's simply not visible with a pair of binoculars. You have a telescope, but a pair of binoculars won't do. I tried with my Swarovski 15x56 and Celeston 25x70, nothing
It really upset me that i stood on my roof from 8 pm to 12.45 pm but lost hope on Comet C and blaming nasa for fake info .... But when a astronomy youtuber took a video of it , made me as so happy feeling ..... My childhood dream was to become a astrology but parents restricted to become enginner....
Love from 🇮🇳🙏 ✨. Keep it up!
Comets are also a reminder of the shooting gallery we live in and it is only a matter of time until the next big impact.
8:33 this photo is so impressive apart from the comet there are so many stars in the background and the blank spots have billions of stars and galaxies we never found
space is just so impressive it surprises me how this is not a very famous thing
-11 degrees C! You Canadians are a lot tougher than us Yanks. Nicely done and Bravo to you and Ashley.
Thanks, 3vor for the amazing pictures.
Trevor’s videos got me into astrophotography. I was sitting with my 12” dobsonian one day after watching his videos for about two years now thinking I could never do astrophotography and just decided to get a dslr. Its been 1 month and my images are already improving! Thank you so much Trevor.
Hi Astrobackyard, yours is the best description of ZTF comet information, technique and images. Many thanks from UK.
Thanks for the great shots of this comet ☄️. I live twenty miles west of Tampa Florida I have not been able to see this with binoculars. The last comment I was able to see in the sky was Hale-Bopp comet when I lived in north central California. That was like in 1997? Keep up the great work! 👍
I do love comets but they are tough to stack. I was able to see the comet with a monocular a week ago or so and have imaged it thousands of times. 60, 120, 180, even 300s. Some of my 60s exposures appear to show the coma as elongated. This is a thrilling event.....now to the work of stacking and processing.
On the most visible days, it was too cloudy where I live to see it. By the time it cleared up, its magnitude was too low. Sad I didn't get to see it myself, but thanks to people like you, we all get to experience it together
As everytime, amazing content and amazing shot. Thanks Trevor for pushing the astrophotography to what it is now!
Thanks for showing my picture Trevor, I used the Radian 61 Telescope to capture it
It was suggested to me, try exposure of around 30 seconds with a fairly high gain/iso
I knew you would get it, I was waiting for this video, You never fail.
i live in massachusetts about 30+ miles west of boston and have looked for it the last few nights but no luck yet. i'll try bincocs tonight but it's below zero F. thanks for taking the picture and sharing it.
I live in Quebec near Montreal and I wanted to look outside last night... but with -28 degrees C and some snowflakes falling, I was quite disappointed! But so happy to find your video here, at least I will have seen it ''virtually''. Somehow, I felt emotional when you showed your gf about the comet but she didn't see it. This phenomena is not like a moon eclipse; you miss it, you can still see one in a few months or so. But this comet? Rare thing, it is!
Thanks for the work man. I couldn't see the comet with binoculars myself but the picture you've taken turned out really good.
Thank you!!
Fully agree!!
Such amazing pics. I was so excited to see the green comet. Didn't get the chance to hunt for the comet..but thanks for the sharing your pic's to the world
CONGRATULATIONS --- TREVOR. I Really was very IMPRESSED!!!!! THANK YOU! From, U.K. (2023).
Thanks for featuring my image, Trevor. Should've mentioned my name is English. But I can represent some of the Japanese Astro guys here.
Ahhh man! Yours was one of the absolute best I have seen. THANK YOU!
Awesome video! I was glad I found ZTF with a pair of binoculars although at first I thought it was a smudge in my lens.
Thank you for sharing. My binoculars did not have the same focus as your setup. I appreciate your time outside in the frozen tundra to capture something that will never be seen in our life time again. THE GREEN COMET was 🔥
Thank you Trevor for the image.Outstanding!
Brilliant. I live in Western Australia and saw some guy saying 6th Feb about 8pm it will be next to Mars. Green comet, Red planet, should be visible with naked eye. After seeing your clip I really hope so. Mind you I'm still gazing every night.
hopefully my skies will be clearer! I read something about that too. Good luck!
@@crazyaces4042 I got the date wrong. It's suppose to be the 6th of Feb. Sorry
You are lucky Trevor, my wife refused to venture out in the cold. When taking our dog out for a late night pee a couple of weeks ago and using Stellarium as a guide I took a long exposure photo of the night sky to the North using my Pixel 7 phone set to it's highest ISO and to my surprise I caught a green blob in the right place. A couple of nights later I managed to capture much better photos including the faint tail using my Pentax KP and D-FA 150-460 lens mounted on a tripod, I could see a fuzzy outline through the lens then imaged the comet with 12,800 ISO and 10 second exposures. I am delighted to have seen such a famous visitor.
Amazing storytelling, especially the wife ending! Great shoots !
Nice ending! The Colorization is Beautiful! Love the Music background also at the end..... And the Telecaster sound. I have one!!! Nice!
This comet for me was quite dim in the city lights. We did eventually find by taking photos but, it's a bit of a stretch to say it was a good binocular object. Thanks for the video!
Trevor! This is such a great video, love the way you broke down the comet for the public and debunked some of the claims floating around in the media about it, because some of them are truly wild. The night footage shots look amazing, great work with those! And of course, awesome job with the final image. Did you get the ASIAIR to guide on the comet head?
"Nothing lasts forever"
The Dog realizing that the free dinner is 1 hour late: "Hold up!"
Absolutely stunning! Sadly is was cloudy here so I couldn't find it :(
Keep up the good work Trevor!
Don't forget the view with eye at the eyepiece. A reward in itself is to track a comet in real time as it passes the background field of stars.
Upstate NY it's been so cloudy the taste week and any time something celestial happens it's cloudy :-( so thank you for these photos at least I can see it this way
Great video and gorgeous images 🎉 I had to laugh about you getting your wife out in the wee smalls to share the comet. Similar dynamic for me dragging my husband out to see things. But I remember going out to look at the night sky with to my dad when I was little and the sense of joy and wonder has never left me. Thanks for sharing this!
I don’t know where you are in Ontario but we have had cloud cover every night since November. Nice work on getting a shot!!
After seeing Ash's thing on instagram about being woken up to look through the binoculars to see the comment, I couldn't help but chuckle in the intro bit with her haha.
7:50 oh that beat is goooood
Damn, where you live, skies are very clear! In my native country there have been only 5 hours of sunlight in entire month
Your wife coming out to see the comet at the end.... so relatable! Same sleepy reaction like my wife usually does! 😅 She's like "Are you REALLY sure all of this is worthy? I'm going back to bed... cheers!" 🤣
Thanks man !!!! much love from New Zealand
7:32 The best part I Have ever seen. Goosebumps 🎆
Awesome video! Informative, interesting, dramatic, easy to understand! Thanks so much! 💐
I feel sad that i am going to miss out on once in 50000 year opportunity :-\
Your video made me feel a little better. Thanks ❤️
I really enjoy this video well put together 👍
Here in India , I saw that green comet yesterday on 2nd Feb at
19 :13.
It was clearly visible with naked eyes .I spotted it in northwest direction and after few minutes it got disappeared in North direction.
Firstly I thought it was starlink satellite ( or something like that ) because of its tail . But then I googled and found that it was that comet only and not any satellite .
But to my surprise, it was not green ( with naked eyes)
I am confused if was that starlink satellite or this green comet which is everywhere in news and was expected to be seen on 1st/2nd Feb.
Awesome work, Trevor!
Thank you for the photos, my friend and I went out to see it but the Moon was giving off such a huge ring of light that we could never see it. Defiantly need a new telescope. But, I got to see it here, thank you!!!!
She said man you drug me out here for nothing. Im going back to bed 😂😂😂
Amazing shooting... congrats!
This guy was my motivation to start astrophotography
Thank you for sharing this with us,I went out that night but it was cloudy.
Such a great passion. Every second of it is amazing. Thank you so much. I really like your videos.
All the astronomy apps out there I've tried with "live view" modes, they all show it in different positions in the sky toward the North, which is hopeless. Hale-Bopp back in 1997 was so much easier to track even with light pollution, but this green comet is nothing but illusive and the sub zero temperatures didn't help either.
Your telescope must be so good that it can penetrate clouds, because last time we saw Sun where I live was in November 2022.
The way your dog looked into the camera after you said nothing last forever gave me the chills.
That capture is absolutely obscene. Your skills are incredible Nd to call yourself an amateur at this is really playing yourself down. Such incredible photography and processing skills. I am constantly amazed at every video of yours I wafch.
Great Images Trevor, Reminds me of those funny priceless commercials;
ASI2400MC Camera, $3000
SkyWatcher Esprit 100 Telescope, $3200
EQ6R GoTo Mount, $2000
Misc "Must have" accessories, $4000
Enough energy drinks to stay awake for the duration, $200
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Waking up your wife in the middle of the night in freezing cold to see the "once in a lifetime rare green comet"
Resulting in "she never found it" as she reluctantly scurry's dressed in her house coat and slippers back inside to bed, PRICELESS!
Great Video, Love your channel!
More important though , How's that guide graph?
Thanks man due to living in India i tried my best to see this comet as a 19 year old i couldn't get a telescope but through you i could see it I'm very thankful
To be fair it is very faint in binoculars, that's why she didn't see it. The Moon doesn't help matters any. I saw it as a small gray smudge in 8x50's. My evscope found it easily.
It's quite amazing, few can find it with binoculars, and so many news sites told people it would be visible to the naked eye. Yet, even those of us with nice cameras and zoom lenses, using a star tracker could photograph it, but some of the images out there are so misleading. 600mm of zoom, or more for some photos, 50-100 photos, a week of full editing, to produce one photo. I have a few shots of this comet, none as nice as yours, but I have photos, I took myself, from my backyard.
You should make a video of the DSS vs IPP comet stacking. I'm having a nightmare of a time trying to get DSS to stack this properly.
Beautiful. Love it!
Of course she couldn't find it. -11degrees , 2am ..and you ask the poor sleepy soul to align the binoculars to the scope. The binoculars were so misaligned, she might have been looking at a different postcode!