We have had extensive cloudiness here for the past few weeks. The atmospheric rivers (AR) that have been causing excessive rain in California have brought lesser amounts of rain and snow to northern Arizona–but a lot of clouds. Consequently, I have been unable to do any astrophotography imaging for several weeks.

Finally, however, we had a clear night and I wanted to see if I could get some good images of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) in the morning sky. The only problem was a nearly full Moon.

Undaunted, I awoke early in the morning and drove to one of my preferred locations for shooting astro images. Along the way, I ran into patches of ground fog. I was worried that the fog would prevent me from getting good sky photos. The real problem, however, was the bright Moon. I shoot several images before giving up because the sky was too bright.

As a consolation, I decided to shoot photographs of the low-lying fog that was illuminated by the nearly-full Moon. I like these better that the comet images–but I will try to photograph the comet again after the Moon has moved out of the morning sky.