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ASTRO: Peteshultz
This is an intentional image of asteroids. I was fortunate to go to
high school with Pete Schultz. We helped form the Prairie Astronomy Club in 1961 and did a lot of astrophotography together from a cow pasture south of Lincoln Nebraska. I found many cow pies the hard way, he seemed to avoid them. He worked for a camera store and would show up with some really nice gear the store let him field test. So he was using thousands of dollars worth of gear while I was using home made stuff and el cheapo cameras and lenses scrounged from the used bin at camera stores. Now he shoots holes in comets and gets sued by a Russian astrologer for ruining her so called forecasts. I wish I was kidding, but he no longer attends conferences in Russia for fear of being arrested. I tried taking his asteroid last summer but it was lost in dense Milky Way and further away so much fainter. Conditions were much better this year. It was against a far less dense star field and a couple magnitudes brighter at magnitude 17.3. There are three other asteroids in the image. (168440) 1998 WT2 at magnitude 19.2 (147923) 2006 VK34 at magnitude 19.3 (19753) 2000 CL94 at magnitude 17.1 These are all estimated magnitudes by the minor planet center. Sometimes I find I disagree with their estimates but these seem quite reasonable compared to my data. The naming citation for his asteroid reads: "Peter H. Schultz, a geologist at Brown University, has studied cratering phenomena experimentally and in the field. He has played a major role in defining and developing the Deep Impact mission, particularly through his cratering experiments at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range." Animation and still image made from the same data. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x10' RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME The animation is at the Prairie Astronomy Club website (the one we helped found 50 years ago). At 2 megabytes it will take a bit to load. http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/...hultz-anim.gif The still and annotated images are attached. None of the galaxies in the image had red shift data available so only the asteroids are pointed out on the annotated image. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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Rick,
Pete seems to be a fast guy; I don't know how fast main belt asteroids move, but they are certainly faster than most of us ;-) Stefan "Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag .com... This is an intentional image of asteroids. I was fortunate to go to high school with Pete Schultz. We helped form the Prairie Astronomy Club in 1961 and did a lot of astrophotography together from a cow pasture south of Lincoln Nebraska. I found many cow pies the hard way, he seemed to avoid them. He worked for a camera store and would show up with some really nice gear the store let him field test. So he was using thousands of dollars worth of gear while I was using home made stuff and el cheapo cameras and lenses scrounged from the used bin at camera stores. Now he shoots holes in comets and gets sued by a Russian astrologer for ruining her so called forecasts. I wish I was kidding, but he no longer attends conferences in Russia for fear of being arrested. I tried taking his asteroid last summer but it was lost in dense Milky Way and further away so much fainter. Conditions were much better this year. It was against a far less dense star field and a couple magnitudes brighter at magnitude 17.3. There are three other asteroids in the image. (168440) 1998 WT2 at magnitude 19.2 (147923) 2006 VK34 at magnitude 19.3 (19753) 2000 CL94 at magnitude 17.1 These are all estimated magnitudes by the minor planet center. Sometimes I find I disagree with their estimates but these seem quite reasonable compared to my data. The naming citation for his asteroid reads: "Peter H. Schultz, a geologist at Brown University, has studied cratering phenomena experimentally and in the field. He has played a major role in defining and developing the Deep Impact mission, particularly through his cratering experiments at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range." Animation and still image made from the same data. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x10' RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME The animation is at the Prairie Astronomy Club website (the one we helped found 50 years ago). At 2 megabytes it will take a bit to load. http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/...hultz-anim.gif The still and annotated images are attached. None of the galaxies in the image had red shift data available so only the asteroids are pointed out on the annotated image. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: Peteshultz
I mistakenly said the color data was 2 ten minute images. That is what
I took but clouds forced me to throw out one round so the data line should read RGB=1x10'. Rick On 10/27/2011 1:10 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: This is an intentional image of asteroids. I was fortunate to go to high school with Pete Schultz. We helped form the Prairie Astronomy Club in 1961 and did a lot of astrophotography together from a cow pasture south of Lincoln Nebraska. I found many cow pies the hard way, he seemed to avoid them. He worked for a camera store and would show up with some really nice gear the store let him field test. So he was using thousands of dollars worth of gear while I was using home made stuff and el cheapo cameras and lenses scrounged from the used bin at camera stores. Now he shoots holes in comets and gets sued by a Russian astrologer for ruining her so called forecasts. I wish I was kidding, but he no longer attends conferences in Russia for fear of being arrested. I tried taking his asteroid last summer but it was lost in dense Milky Way and further away so much fainter. Conditions were much better this year. It was against a far less dense star field and a couple magnitudes brighter at magnitude 17.3. There are three other asteroids in the image. (168440) 1998 WT2 at magnitude 19.2 (147923) 2006 VK34 at magnitude 19.3 (19753) 2000 CL94 at magnitude 17.1 These are all estimated magnitudes by the minor planet center. Sometimes I find I disagree with their estimates but these seem quite reasonable compared to my data. The naming citation for his asteroid reads: "Peter H. Schultz, a geologist at Brown University, has studied cratering phenomena experimentally and in the field. He has played a major role in defining and developing the Deep Impact mission, particularly through his cratering experiments at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range." Animation and still image made from the same data. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x10' RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME The animation is at the Prairie Astronomy Club website (the one we helped found 50 years ago). At 2 megabytes it will take a bit to load. http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/...hultz-anim.gif The still and annotated images are attached. None of the galaxies in the image had red shift data available so only the asteroids are pointed out on the annotated image. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: Peteshultz
Maybe not faster than Pete. Pete is a ball of energy so he moves fast.
Asteroid speed depends on where you catch them in their orbit. The first time I imaged it last year it was near the end of retrograde motion and thus moving slowly. This time it is mid retrograde so moving about as fast as is possible when in retrograde. The other three asteroids are also mid retrograde so are moving about the same speed. If you catch them in prograde they can move even faster relative to the stars. Of course distance has a bearing here. Closer gives a faster motion as well and it was closer this time around. But I'd say this trail is pretty normal for a mid retrograde main belt asteroid. The trail is longer than normal for my images because it is 60 minutes long rather than my normal 40 minutes. I wanted more frames for the movie. Seeing the cloud sensor I processed to hold the asteroid brightness pretty constant. Stars, especially faint ones, very quite a bit due to the variable clouds and seeing it was taken through On 10/27/2011 4:41 PM, Stefan Lilge wrote: Rick, Pete seems to be a fast guy; I don't know how fast main belt asteroids move, but they are certainly faster than most of us ;-) Stefan "Rick schrieb im Newsbeitrag .com... This is an intentional image of asteroids. I was fortunate to go to high school with Pete Schultz. We helped form the Prairie Astronomy Club in 1961 and did a lot of astrophotography together from a cow pasture south of Lincoln Nebraska. I found many cow pies the hard way, he seemed to avoid them. He worked for a camera store and would show up with some really nice gear the store let him field test. So he was using thousands of dollars worth of gear while I was using home made stuff and el cheapo cameras and lenses scrounged from the used bin at camera stores. Now he shoots holes in comets and gets sued by a Russian astrologer for ruining her so called forecasts. I wish I was kidding, but he no longer attends conferences in Russia for fear of being arrested. I tried taking his asteroid last summer but it was lost in dense Milky Way and further away so much fainter. Conditions were much better this year. It was against a far less dense star field and a couple magnitudes brighter at magnitude 17.3. There are three other asteroids in the image. (168440) 1998 WT2 at magnitude 19.2 (147923) 2006 VK34 at magnitude 19.3 (19753) 2000 CL94 at magnitude 17.1 These are all estimated magnitudes by the minor planet center. Sometimes I find I disagree with their estimates but these seem quite reasonable compared to my data. The naming citation for his asteroid reads: "Peter H. Schultz, a geologist at Brown University, has studied cratering phenomena experimentally and in the field. He has played a major role in defining and developing the Deep Impact mission, particularly through his cratering experiments at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range." Animation and still image made from the same data. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x10' RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME The animation is at the Prairie Astronomy Club website (the one we helped found 50 years ago). At 2 megabytes it will take a bit to load. http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/...hultz-anim.gif The still and annotated images are attached. None of the galaxies in the image had red shift data available so only the asteroids are pointed out on the annotated image. Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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