Another new comet for the weekend

[Ross Wilkinson]

This one is C/2020 V2 (ZTF), which although faint is well-placed: very close to the star Megrez in Ursa Major.

It's the first comet I've encountered which was discovered by the "Zwicky Transient Facility" - a wide-field survey operated by CalTech from the famous 48-inch Schmidt camera at Mount Palomar. This has the capability to re-survey the entire sky every couple of days and spot any changes over these time-scales. So far it's discovered over 200 comets and asteroids (plus 4500 supernovae!)

This is a stack of 109x 1-minute subs from my Mx716 on the C8 at f/3.5.