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Barry, Tom and myself had a pleasant evening chasing faint fuzzies in Centaurus and some not so faint ones in Virgo and Coma with a 28, a 25 and an 18. The atmosphere was quite cooperative with both the big scopes cooling down quite fast, and being able to run at very high powers (>600x) for some nice clear views of Encke's gap in Saturn's rings.
We managed to see the Forcade Figuera object (ESO270-G17) in the 25" too - always a sign of a good night. Anyway - all done under the watchful eye of the D800 taking 15" images at 14mm@f2.8, iso 3200.
Right near the end of the video a bright object (mag 4 ish) appears near the SCP and travels downward relatively slowly, taking the best part of an hour to cover a few degrees. Any ideas what that was? My guess is an asteroid.
Also, the change in the skyglow during the 8 hours of the video is quite remarkable.
Thanks for looking,
Andrew