Comet ZTF in a Live View

From the photographer: “As the Green comet, C/2022 E3 (ZTF) spends its closest to Earth and has enough brightness to see by the naked eye but not easy, I decided to spend one of my darkest nights in Khar Turan national park.

Magnitude +6.5 is the approximate limit of stars observed by a mean naked-eye observer under very good conditions like this. There are very astounding villages in the heart of the deserts of Iran. Villages that each have their own unique story. We went to a desert village to photograph the green comet. The village that does not have electricity so the sky is extremely dark.

The Polaris and the Comet ZTF are shining over a clay-built house in the Central desert in Iran. A unique desert with valuable plants and outstanding animal species like the black saxaul tree and Persian leopard. There are plenty of villages inside the national park whose residents are in direct contact with nature and shaped their lifestyle, stories, and myths by it.

The inspiring night sky is an important part of nature which used by desert people for navigation, timing, and agriculture. Hoping that one day these potentials will be used to build an eco-village. an eco-village with dark sky and long history and unique heritage and unexampled story and specific architecture.”

Technical details: Canon 6D Modified, Canon lens 16-35 at 31mm, 8×60 sec using a star tracker, f2.8, ISO 4000