[meteorite-list] 2011 MD Animation

[Mike Hankey]

fantastic! thanks for sharing.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Richard Kowalski <damoclid at 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.
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> He writes on his Youtube page:
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> "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
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-pv18xDWCY
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> Richard Kowalski
> Full Moon Photography
> IMCA #1081
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