C/2022 E3 (ZTF) (again), M81/M82 widefield, & NGC 1980 doubles.

[josefk]

Either shamelessly nicked off a report in "what did you see..." or inspired by. I think inspired by and thanks @Pixies (if you read this) for the original idea for what was a lovely 60 min experience with C/2022 E3 last night marking the comet's travel across the starfield in real time. (NB. the comet like tail on the comet in the picture of the sketch isn't in the sketch itself and wasn't observed). C/2022 appeared like a circa 8' globular cluster with off centre bright heart:

while in the area i took the opportunity to sketch M81 and M82 in a wide field view. No real detail visible in either but i took especial care to mark their size and relative positions vis a vis nearby stars and M81 was glowing a little at its centre - this black paper infers more contrast than was true in the greyish sky at this exit pupil:

 

Finally an absolute eyeful of doubles in NGC 1980. This will be my sketch of Struve 747 for the AL double star programme. i'm not overwhelmingly convinced of "C" in Struve 752. it was obvious and its in my field sketch but i'm not sure what was obvious is correctly "C" in this group if that makes sense: