fantastic! thanks for sharing.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Richard Kowalski <damoc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I got a few positional images of this object with our 1.5-m (60") on Mt. > Lemmon last night, but Jure Skvarč at the Črni Vrh Observatory in Slovenia > obtained one of the nicer time lapse animations of the asteroids motion > against the background stars. > > > He writes on his Youtube page: > > "The images for this animation were taken using a 60-cm telescope from > the Črni Vrh Observatory on the night of 26 July 2011. Each exposure > was of 15 seconds. The telescope was tracking on the asteroid, changing the > rate of tracking between exposures. The entire sequence lasted > about 4h40m, during which 635 exposures were made. At the time the > asteroid was less than 200000 km from Earth. At the closest approach > some 15 hours later the distance was about 20000 km." > > 4 hours, 40 minutes of imaging the NEO until his dawn, compressed down to 43 > seconds. Enjoy > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-pv18xDWCY > > > -- > Richard Kowalski > Full Moon Photography > IMCA #1081 > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list