Comet C/2022 E2 ATLAS

[Ross Wilkinson]

Well, I didn't need to wait long in 2025 for a clear night and a "new" comet!

This comet was discovered in March 2022 by the ATLAS project. 

At the moment it's very high in the sky (Cassiopeia), but only around 13th magnitude.

This is a stack of 90x 1-min exposures with my Mx716 camera on the C8 operating at f/3.5.

I calibrated and aligned the images in IRIS, then separately stacked the comet and background stars sequences in SiriL and finally overlaid the planes in GIMP.