This image of comet c/2022 e3 (ztf) is dedicated to my father who sadly passed while this comet was in our night sky on 12 January 2023. Comets are like our loved ones, we look up to them and cherish the joy they bring into our lives. But, in the blink of a cosmic eye they have to go, leaving us with beautiful images and wonderful memories.

Love you Dad

C/2020 F3 or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope. At that time, it was an 18th-magnitude object, located 2 AU away from the Sun and 1.7 AU away from Earth.

Orbital period: 6,792 years

Radius: 2.5 km