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
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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

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

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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
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