Asteroid fly-by 26-27 January

[ghostdance]

Just in case anyone's up on the 26/27 Jan, and cloud-central permits  

(Haven't checked if this has already been posted. Mods, please feel free to delete if it has. No point clogging the Lounge...)

[Davey-T]

Saw this on the net, will have a go at imaging it after qualified success on the last couple.

Dave

[pete910]

As a newcomer to all this the Mrs and I will certainly have a go. Handy vid of where to aim at too . From what I've read its actually very close in astronomical terms.

[Stu]

Hadn't seen that one, thanks for the heads up. Will definitely give it a go if skies are clear.

Stu

[Chinapig]

Thanks Ghostdance - a very helpful video. Sounds like another early rise is in store (Jupiter triple transit early tomorrow), to catch its fly-by near M44. That'll make a neat time-lapse challenge. Never tried an asteroid before but will aim to give it a go.

[Astrobits]

Nice video, thanks Ghostdance.

Just a minor point, the magnitude is expected to be 19 so not visual unless you happen to have a rather large telescope in your backyard.

Nigel

[robbie c]

Great video thanks for that will be having ago if the clouds are kind to us 

[Nathan_Pembs]

Saw the article about this the other day on Yahoo, they used a picture of a comet with it though

[Astrobits]

A correction to my previous post.

The NASA NEO Earth Close Approaches page lists 2004 BL86 at mag 19. Sky & Telescope has it at about mag 9.2 at closest approach. Pity the NASA page doesn't give any further info on the mag.

So it will be visible in small telescopes.

Nigel

[Brent]

Does anyone else's Stellarium show this as moving through Orion from 10pm, specifically just to the right of Rigel? (and not going anywhere near Procyon and Jupiter, as in the video above)

I've re-added it a few times but it still moves on the same route.

I wouldn't be too bothered about it being incorrect normally but I just thought it would be a quick and easy way of aqcuiring the target if I do get a gap in the clouds.

[David Smith]

Did you update the Asteroid elements in the Solar System plugin? If you select the right bookmark from the list (the one ending in ...PHA) then you can filter the resultant list and just add 2004 BL 86. Once this is done it shows the asteroid moving up between Hydra and Monoceros / Canis Minor.

[jonathan]

Ach, too late / early for me, need to be at work and I don't operate well on low sleep.

[Stu]

Will probably put the big Dob out and give it a go. Most likely the baby will have woken me up anyway!

[Nathan_Pembs]

What will be the best/easiest way to capture this, qhy5 cam or dslr taking lots of frames??

[uhb1966]

Snow, fog and rain over here >_<

[Stu]

Clear here currently, fingers crossed

[Nathan_Pembs]

So it's around 5am for the Beehive passing? Ugh seriously? Lol

[buzzc150]

Been out twice now with an 8inch dog and can't find the little blighter.

[Peter Drew]

You'll have to get a bigger dog. 

[pete910]

Been out twice now with an 8inch dog and can't find the little blighter.

Tried for the last few hours with a 5" Newt with no luck.  Too cold now. Think best time is 5.15/30 ish according to stellerium .

Wish I could get my computer/stellerium to talk to the telescope.

Lack of experience/knowlage is what's done me/Mrs I susspect.

[Nathan_Pembs]

I was out with the 150P, didn't see it by eye but got a few frames with my camera so very happy I caught it

Hoping to make a quick time lapse, any free software you can recommend?

[Brent]

Did you update the Asteroid elements in the Solar System plugin? If you select the right bookmark from the list (the one ending in ...PHA) then you can filter the resultant list and just add 2004 BL 86. Once this is done it shows the asteroid moving up between Hydra and Monoceros / Canis Minor.

Thanks David.

That was on a desktop, when I updated on the imaging laptop all went well, so not sure what happened. Anyway, got some decent weather so have some frames to upload later

[giorgio_ne]

Despite the assurance from experts about the rarity of these events, evidence from Tunguska, Chelyabinsk and other 'close shave', suggest a different reality.

[nickb2513]

Tried for the last few hours with a 5" Newt with no luck.  Too cold now. Think best time is 5.15/30 ish according to stellerium .

Wish I could get my computer/stellerium to talk to the telescope.

Lack of experience/knowlage is what's done me/Mrs I susspect.

[pete910]

I have now cracked it yesterday evening, gave up with them usb-serial adapters , used the onboard serial instead.  Just using plain ser2net pass through for now.

I read your post on that not long after i'd done it.   

Just need to make a picam adapter on my lathe so I can join the imaging guys.