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Link to amusing story https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/17/wasteroid_qv89_earth/ Cheers
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On March 31, 2018 issue of the Minor Planet Circular, the asteroid previously known as 2001 HQ16 was named. (72834) Guywells is a Main belt asteroid with a diameter of 3-6 km. It last came to opposition in February 2018 when it reached 18th magnitude. Now it is moving through the constellation Cancer, observable at mag +19.5. (72834) Guywells was discovered by L Ball, in 2001. -
I've been following somebody on Facebook who regularly images asteroids, and indeed has identified a few of his own. But this got me to wondering, do these orbiting bodies, of which there must be many thousands, all reach the same kind of velocity? I guess there are various factors involved. This new asteroid from another galaxy is also intriguing. For what it is worth, here are a couple that I have observed in the past:
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Hi, after almost 2 months of clouds there was finally a clear night in sight. I made most of it, imaging until clouds rolled in about 4 in the morning. I shot these using two telescopes at Taurus Hill Observatory. Its fun to operate two at the same time, luckily its possible from indoors. Ill also attach here light curve of variable star V0416 UMa that I made during the same night with C14 and SBIG ST-8 on Paramount ME mark II. Other images are taken with 16" f/8 Meade SCT and SBIG STT8300M on Paramount ME mark I. Im expecially happy with Dembowska, I tried to get complete light curve twic- 4 replies
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The Kingsmen are at it again! And this time, they've been ordered to chase down the rapidly moving interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua to make analyses and to make sure it doesn't collide with any of the planets in our solar system. It includes images from the ESO, NASA/JPL-Caltech, Pan-STARRS1, and the University of Wisconsin. I wrote the storyline, did the character and spaceship illustrations, performed the voice characterizations, created the AfterFX space animations, and composed the music (as The False Dawn).I hope you enjoy this little adventure! The Kingsmen, excelsio
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A GIF animation of 322 x3 second frames showing NEO 3200 Pheathon during its close approach in December last year. It's taken me a while to get around to putting this together... Frames were taken during the early evening of December 14th 2017 between 18.11.06 UT and 19.44.57 UT as the object crossed the Perseus/ Andromeda border. The field is just under a degree wide. What I think is a sporadic meteor crosses the field about a second in. I could not find a satellite ID for that time and region, nor do I think it is a Geminind as it seem to come from the wrong radiant. Any co -
Did anyone try observing the predicted occultation of a faint star by the asteroid Massalia on 17th Nov 2017 at around 01.30 am? I saw a prediction and tried to observe it, but was defeated by my telescope misting up after a long spell in the open, despite a dew shield. -
NEO Asteroid 3122 Florence should become visible in binoculars next week. It will pass at 18.4 LD (0.047 AU, 7 million km) at 12:06 UT on 2017 September 01. The magnitude predictions are uncertain, but although it may be near the limit of visibility for smaller binoculars, it should be relatively easy in 70mm or larger apertures at least until the Moon begins to interfere at the beginning of September. The asteroid, which has a diameter somewhere between 4 and 9 km (we should know this more precisely after this pass) is named for Florence Nightingale and will not pass this close again for -
Near Earth asteroid (3122) Florence (3122) Florence is an Amor-type potentially hazardous asteroid with a diameter of 4.9 km. It will make a close approach to Earth on September 1st, at a distance of 0.05 AU (7.1 million km). During the close approach it brightens to 8.5 mag and becomes visible in small telescopes for several nights. Florence is the largest asteroid to pass this close to Earth since the first Near Earth asteroids were discovered over a century ago.
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Despite the forecast that it would clear in the late evening, it didn't happen (typically) until I had packed up and gone indoors, well after midnight. So I tried to make the best of it looking fairly low to the south to find Florence, and there she was! Here's a stack of 108 x 6s subs starting at around 23:39 in the evening, and an animation made from every fifth shot (I can't seem to flip it the right way around, sorry.) As well as clouds there was (of course) a passing satellite... C9.25 Hyperstar with SX Ultrastar camera and Explore Scientific UHC filter. Animated GI
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"Citizen Science" - reporting Asteroid Astrometry to MPC
MikeODay posted a topic in The Astro Lounge
Back in March I was granted an observatory code ( Q69 ) by the Minor Planet Center ( MPC ) and since then I have been spending all my available telescope time ( which due the weather has admittedly not been very much ) to capturing images of asteroids, that the MPC is interested in recieving data for, and sending in the positions that I have determined. Mostly I have been focused on asteroids that have not been observed/reported on during their current return to visibility. 2014 LA21 was my first after getting my code ... Here I was the first to report astrometry f -
As Vesta is currently at approximately magnitude +7.6 and going through Gemini for most of April I intend to try to track it (weather permitting) over this time if possible. As this will be my first ever asteroid hunt and potentially first one ever seen, are there any tips apart from sketching its position against the stars to be able to do this? Below is the fov in my Opticstar AS90S with my 18mm Celestron X-Cel LX EP that I intend to use for this if possible.
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6063 Jason is an Apollo-type asteroid with a diameter of 1.4 km. It will came relatively close to Earth on May 27, when it is reached mag. +13.6. Jason can be seen here moving at 19 "/min over a period of 20 minutes.
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2017 CS is an Apollo-type potentially hazardous asteroid with a diameter of 360-800 metres, seen here moving at 24 "/min over a 25 minute period. This asteroid is currently very bright at 13th magnitude.
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A very belated heads-up for the documentary on BBC2 last night, well worth catching up on iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08r3xhf The investigation and underwater geology of the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, confirming just how quickly this affected the global environment, and changed Earth's history path.
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You look to the South on a crystal clear night and spot Scorpius and Sagittarius gleaming above the horizon. Probably some of the best observable night sky objects are within these fine constellations. My 4.5 inch reflector was ready to go at 12 AM on Sunday morning, I aligned the stars Altair and Dubhe in the two star alignment feature on its GoTo mount . I was thinking of either imaging Saturn and Jupiter. But I chose to observe some of the dazzling and interesting objects in Sagittarius. I slewed my telescope to M25 first. a beautiful open cluster in the top part of Sagittarius' border
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Vesta, The only bright asteroid I have not observed yet. After observing Ceres in Cetus and Pallas in Equuleus, the time has come and at a great time as well to observe the 2nd largest asteroid in our Solar System. I have put aside observing the main planets in the winter sky such as Venus, Uranus and Neptune and have started to challenge myself with looking for these mysterious wonderful objects. And Vesta is next on my list. Vesta is currently in Cancer the crab, which is starting to emerge into our evenings with other well known winter constellations such as Orion, Gemini, Canis Major -
Just looking through some rubbishy images I don't plan to use from last year (2016 :p) and saw that in this one there is an asteroid, presumably, near the little fuzzy PGC13696 just off Electra. This area is rich in these little moving chaps, but stacking the images normally removes their trails. If you have your own M45 images, it can be worth setting three or four up, one from the start of the session, one from the middle, and one at the end, stretch them, then blink between them. If there is any asteroid activity your eyes should pick up the moving white dot quite easily. T
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Watch live : http://www.space.com/19195-night-sky-planets-asteroids-webcasts.html Orbit and info : https://watchers.news/2017/01/31/asteroid-2017-bs32-flyby-february-2-2017/ Cheers, Gary. -
Had a bash at some minor planet spotting on Friday night/Saturday morning. Pointed the scope at a fairly nondescript bit of space between Gemini and Cancer and started taking pictures. The star in the middle of the field is (I believe!) asteroid 4 Vesta at a distance of some 227 million kilometres. I took five frames over a period of twenty-five minutes before the clouds came over to see what I was doing, but even over this short a period, you can see some elongation of Vesta as it drifts relative to the fixed background stars. Interesting way to spend some time since the weather wa
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So last night at 8:10 PM I decided to point my telescope to Alpha Piscium to start star hopping to Ceres. I hopped through a few 7th magnitude stars until I came across 3 stars in a crooked line. The one on top of this line was Ceres. I decided to show my Father, since he always wanted to see an asteroid with his own eyes so why not show him the biggest? At magnitude +7.6 it isn't at it's brightest but its magnitude is slowly rising back up to 8th magnitude so it's now a good time to observe it! The first image is exactly what I seen through my telescope ( Celestron 114 LCM 4.5 inc
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Asteroid 2004 BL86
Davide Simonetti posted a topic in Imaging - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
A shot of Asteroid 2004 BL86 which passed us on the night of 26th January 2015. This was the first time I had seen an asteroid so I was very pleased to have captured a few shots. This image is made from 31 x 10 second exposures at 6400 ISO with 19 dark frames. Processing was done in Deep Sky Stacker (using one of the comet modes) and some final tweaking in Photoshop. -
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.
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There is an asteroid occultation on 2013 April 30 that will be visible from parts of the UK. See http://www.astrosurf.com/eaon/Cartes/April%202013/22185_Stiavnica_3UC251-097751.htm 50mm or larger binoculars recommended.
