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ASTRO: 2012_LZ1 The Movie
Yesterday this newly discovered asteroid made its closest approach. I
had rain all day but it cleared leaving horrid seeing. By 2 a.m. it had cleared up to 5", which was far better than the 8" I had earlier. So I took 20 minutes of data on it ending somewhat into dawn. Due to the severe seeing issue I reduced this to 3.16 seconds per pixel. This is the entire frame. No cropping, so about 32' by 22' in size, same as my normal posts. This is the Paramount tracking on the asteroids orbital motion. The file is about 2.6 meg in size so give it time to load. 14" LX200R @ f/10, 20x1', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/...d_2012_LZ1.gif Rick -- Prefix is correct. Domain is arvig dot net |
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ASTRO: 2012_LZ1 The Movie
On 6/15/2012 10:57 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
Yesterday this newly discovered asteroid made its closest approach. I had rain all day but it cleared leaving horrid seeing. By 2 a.m. it had cleared up to 5", which was far better than the 8" I had earlier. So I took 20 minutes of data on it ending somewhat into dawn. Due to the severe seeing issue I reduced this to 3.16 seconds per pixel. This is the entire frame. No cropping, so about 32' by 22' in size, same as my normal posts. This is the Paramount tracking on the asteroids orbital motion. The file is about 2.6 meg in size so give it time to load. 14" LX200R @ f/10, 20x1', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/...d_2012_LZ1.gif Rick Rather nice and better looking than the images from SLOOH. Bud |
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ASTRO: 2012_LZ1 The Movie
Rick,
that is a fast flyby. What a pity that you didn't have a 3d camera to give a startrek-traveling-at-warp-speed-like view :-) Stefan "Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag .com... Yesterday this newly discovered asteroid made its closest approach. I had rain all day but it cleared leaving horrid seeing. By 2 a.m. it had cleared up to 5", which was far better than the 8" I had earlier. So I took 20 minutes of data on it ending somewhat into dawn. Due to the severe seeing issue I reduced this to 3.16 seconds per pixel. This is the entire frame. No cropping, so about 32' by 22' in size, same as my normal posts. This is the Paramount tracking on the asteroids orbital motion. The file is about 2.6 meg in size so give it time to load. 14" LX200R @ f/10, 20x1', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/...d_2012_LZ1.gif Rick -- Prefix is correct. Domain is arvig dot net |
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