Cloudy, with a touch of Florence

[AKB]

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 GIF made online at http://gifmaker.me/

[Martin Meredith]

Nice animation and good to see the reality yet at the same time the impotence of the clouds i this case. What is Florence's magnitude in these shots?

Martin

 

[AKB]

7 minutes ago, Martin Meredith said:

What is Florence's magnitude in these shots?

According to this:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/see-asteroid-florence-fly-by-earth-this-week/

it's about 8.7, and checking in Stellarium it says the same, which also tallies with the brighter stars in the FOV between about 7.7 and 10.