Near Earth Object visible in small telescopes

[lukebl]

1 minute ago, Muc said:

That's great, congrats. I can't believe Stellarium Plus sent me to the wrong constellation 🙃

It's in the wrong position for me in Sky Safari Pro too!

However, Carte du Ciel had it correctly, which was how I found it.

[Stu]

3 minutes ago, lukebl said:

It's in the wrong position for me in Sky Safari Pro too!

However, Carte du Ciel had it correctly, which was how I found it.

That’s weird, which version do you have? Was spot on for me in 7 Pro.

[Stu]

3 hours ago, Kon said:

Have you managed to see it again tonight?

No, fairly cloudy and I’m out at an Astro meeting. Makes it even better that I managed yesterday.

[Stu]

16 minutes ago, lukebl said:

Here's a quick animation of 10 x 10 second exposures, captured at round 18:58 this evening (19th Jan) Norfolk, UK.

Atik 383L, binned 2x, 200mm Newtonian. Field of view 61.9 x 46.6 arcmin. The brightest star at the bottom is around mag 7.9, and the asteroid must be around 11.5

Brilliant, glad you got it 👍👍

[skyhog]

I'm watching it now, amazing to think what we are observing here. 

[bomberbaz]

Got it, little monkey didn't get away this time.  Although it wasn't as bright as I expected.

I tracked it past two very faint stars that were only slightly dimmer than the asteroid and both these were around mag 13 according to stellarium.

As you said earlier @Stu, it is tramming it along .

I was using the 14" dob at x100 then x136. At 136 it stood out readily.

Straight after I packed up and left, a stiff breeze was blowing and the temp was given at 1 degree #windchill

[Stu]

2 hours ago, skyhog said:

I'm watching it now, amazing to think what we are observing here. 

 

2 hours ago, bomberbaz said:

Got it, little monkey didn't get away this time.  Although it wasn't as bright as I expected.

I tracked it past two very faint stars that were only slightly dimmer than the asteroid and both these were around mag 13 according to stellarium.

As you said earlier @Stu, it is tramming it along .

I was using the 14" dob at x100 then x136. At 136 it stood out readily.

Straight after I packed up and left, a stiff breeze was blowing and the temp was given at 1 degree #windchill

Well done chaps, really glad you got it while still moving reasonably fast 👍👍

[lukebl]

Here's a further animation of 50 frames.

10 second exposures from 18:57 to 19:08 on 19th January, during which time it traversed approximately 15 arc minutes (half the visual width of the moon). Atik 383L+, binned 2x, 200PDS Newtonian, Baader coma corrector.

Here's the start and the finish, showing the moon to the same scale.

Edited January 20, 2022 by lukebl

[skyhog]

1 hour ago, lukebl said:

Here's a further animation of 50 frames.

10 second exposures from 18:57 to 19:08 on 19th January, during which time it traversed approximately 15 arc minutes (half the visual width of the moon). Atik 383L+, binned 2x, 200PDS Newtonian, Baader coma corrector.

Here's the start and the finish, showing the moon to the same scale.

That's very good and does give me the feeling I was getting at the eyepiece, albeit not quite as quick as that! I must say it was a lot fainter than I was anticipating, transparency wasn't great and obviously we had the moon, but I was expecting it to be brighter. 

[Stu]

2 minutes ago, skyhog said:

That's very good and does give me the feeling I was getting at the eyepiece, albeit not quite as quick as that! I must say it was a lot fainter than I was anticipating, transparency wasn't great and obviously we had the moon, but I was expecting it to be brighter. 

I think it was at mag 11.5 last night, fainter than on the 18th. What scope were you using? I think I would have struggled with less than the 8”, although probably still there in a 6”.

[skyhog]

My 12 lx200gps, sorry should have mentioned...