Asteroid 2004 BL86 Over London

[Davide Simonetti]

This is a composite image made from 15 shots of Asteroid 2004 BL86 as it whizzed over Blackheath, London on 26th January 2015. One 10 second shot at 6400 ISO was taken every minute. 

[Pete Presland]

Excellent work! 

[Moonshane]

Much prefer this approach to the long line exposures.

[Ruud]

That came out nice! It sure looks like it is in a hurry.

[happy-kat]

Nice and clear

[Pete Presland]

It almost looks like it is tumbling in the image.

[Davide Simonetti]

It almost looks like it is tumbling in the image.

In some of the shots it looks like two separate objects together. I wonder if that's because of the tiny moon it has (although I don't see how I could have captured something so small on a 5 inch scope). But yes, it does look like it's tumbling.

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[Davey-T]

Very nice, there are a few images around that appear to show the effect of the moon.

Dave 

[robbie c]

That is a lovely image 

[prokyon]

Very nice, congratulations!