2012 DA14 - 15th February 2012

[ejwwest]

Taken at prime focus of Celestron EdgeHD 925 scope with Canon 40D camera. ISO 800, 2x 30" exposures stacked.

2012 DA14 by ejwwest, on Flickr

[WaveSoarer]

That's a great capture.

[ixalon]

Great capture! We were lucky enough to have a 30 minute gap in the worst of the cloud, so I managed to dig out my DSLR and tripod from our packing boxes and captured a few frames, e.g:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29218195@N00/8477658518/in/photostream/

[ixalon]

For some fun I ran the image through astrometry.net (surprised that it deals with trails so well!) then put the resulting FITS into TheSkyX. The star the asteroid is passing is wonderfully named UCAC3 311:64914!

[ejwwest]

Looking through the 10 second exposures I took with my 50mm f1.4 lens DA14 is visible. I'll process a few more and see if I can show it tracking across.