Rosetta fly-by

Dear all,
I'm pleased to share a couple of funny results from the imaging session carried
out last night by Gianluca Masi and Franco Mallia (Campocatino Observatory,
Italy) and Roger Wilcox (TIE, USA) and showing the Rosetta spacecraft.

We remotely used the SoTIE telescope, located in Las Campanas - Chile,
consisting of a 14" OTA on Paramount GT-1100S + Apogee AP7 CCD camera. We
collected 33, 15 seconds images grabbed on March 4, 2005 from 02:03:55 UT to
02:45:00 UT. North is up, east on the left. Scale is ~2"/pixel.

A still image is available at:
http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org/rosetta.jpg

while a movie coming from the same image set is posted he
http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org/rosetta2.gif

Clear skies,
Gianluca