Let's find Neptune. - reprocessed

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I've been wanting to track down Neptune now for a while and with the seeing being as it is this week I thought I'd try for some semi-widefield through the ED80 and try for an animation.

This gif is from the 30th July and 1st of Aug. I'm hoping to catch 6 or 7 nights and make a longer animation. Frankly I was surprised how far it moved in just two night. Let's hope for clear skies on Thursday and Saturday to catch another two.

BTW if yo look closely you will see that the two frames aren't perfectly aligned and with one frame having stronger curves than the other you can see slight movement and brightening of stars. There is I believe,one Asteroid in there. Can you find it

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Great find and great animation Paul!!!

And here's ya Asteroid Paul!

[avandonk]

Brilliant! I love action movies.

Bert

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice one Paul! Great to see a Neptune, we don't see much of these littleuns.

Give us the technical data!

[Dennis]

Very nice captures and animation Paul. Well done!

Cheers

Dennis

[Robert_T]

Impressive!!!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Thanks guys. Good one Ken, now all we need is a name

Ok, details. For both captures.
Canon 300D, 6x120sec @ ISO800. Dark and flat subtracted. Converted, calibrated, individual image alignment and combined in ImagesPlus, curve adjustments, final frame aligning an cropping in PS, animation in Advanced Gif Animator (unregistered) See attached for field of view and placement details

[Lester]

Hi Paul,

Great effort. Tried to identify tha asteriod in The Sky ver6 but it showed asteriods everywhere.

[ving (David)]

nice one paul!

how about a close up, cant see any surface detail in that pic

[h0ughy (David)]

Who's a clever Boy then Eh? Well done Paul

[Striker (Tony)]

Nice presentation Paul...well done

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

Thanks guys. Good one Ken, now all we need is a name

Easy - Ponderosa2006A

[Lee]

Awesome work Paul.....

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Cool!

[ving (David)]

i noticed a binary down the bottom where it look like the B star (smaller) has moved about 5 degrees... is this an optical illusion?

i think it coule be...

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I'll go back and reprocess both images to get the tonal ranges and levels the same. That will help to identify "strange lights" in the night sky. How about putting a ring around the one you have identified ving?

[ving (David)]

I'll put a ring around you in a minute sir!!!

(yeah ok, brb)

[ving (David)]

here ya go...

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

There is probably a fair bit of misalignment in the two images ving, I'd say that is the case for yours, though I've been looking closely at the images and I can see at leas 6 possibly 10 suspect movements. I've got my fingers crossed for a clear night tonight to get another round of images to stack and then add to these two. Once I have three finalized images I'll process the levels more carefully and accurately align them as closely as I can, then we will have a "possible" asteroid hunt and see how many we can come up with.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by ving

here ya go...

Hey that's only one third of a telrad vingo!


Very nice Paul, amazing amount of movement there for two nights.