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Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF

Tim Jackson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 24 January 2023

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“Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF last visited us 50,000 years ago. This really was a once in a lifetime opportunity to image it. Having been in the news and all across social media, I was inspired by some of the great images I had seen. I managed to wake up at 4am to find it in the

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