2012 DA14 - 20 second streaks

[AstroJunk]

You get the idea :)

I'm going to sift through six hours of footage and put together a set of 20 second clips to show the speeding up of the rock - I stacked the first two clips to show the difference a few hours apart. I flipped the first as I realised that I needed to swap the fork position to avoid chord wrap.

I recon the end result should be nice, but I'm not convinced I have the energy to do too much more today!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Wow six hours!!

You certainly have your work cut out.

Look forward to the final result Jonathan.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Dennis]

Excellent work Jonathan! Talk about pressure…a world-wide audience…poor weather outlook…NASA on the other end! Congratulations on pulling this off, the technical and timing aspects alone would have been quite demanding.

Cheers

Dennis

[jjjnettie]

:) we were watching your footage last night.
Holding the phone up to the sky, against the cloud and pretending we were watching it for real. LOL
Where the hell did you get your clear skies from???
Congratulations :) Wonderful work. :)

[AstroJunk]

Thanks all, it was a real hoot - And JJJ I have absolutely no idea where the clear sky came from, and it got better and better. Most of the night there was a layer of high cloud, but the scope could actually cut through it and stay on target.

Here's my celebration: http://youtu.be/OfAb398jGIs

Is there an embed code?

[Nico13]

Top job Jonathan, thanks very much for showing and of course for staying up all night.:thumbsup:
I made it to 4.00 before the clouds closed in.

[ChrisM]

Well done Jonathon. I was clouded out unfortunately.

Do I detect some slight wobble in the second trace? I'm not sure if we would see the affects of rotation of a 45 m dia object at a distance of ~30,000 km.

Chris

[allan gould]

That's a ripper Jonathan and a real pleasure to watch. Thanks for posting.

[John Hothersall]

Glad you got it, it was cloudy for me in Cleveland after raining all day.

John.

[astronobob]

Interesting stuff ! definatly a bit of a mission to keep intouch with this rock as it passed, speshly at it closest and fastest, , looking forward to your final clips Jonathan

[Larryp]

Good work, Jonathon!

[DavidTrap]

Very impressive work. Congrats.

DT

[anthony.tony]

What did you image The asteroid with -Nice work - Tony

[AstroJunk]

Cheers for the comments guys, I have to admit to doing a lot of sleeping today!

The camera was a GSTAR-EX video camera which is perfect for the job. I had to use some integration to cut through the cloud - nearly a second at the beginning, which may account for that wobble in some of the footage. When it cleared up just after 4am, and I could turn the integration down, it was super smooth.

One more interview with Spencer Howson tomorrow at 6:15, then I can crawl back under my rock of obscurity :)