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pmrid
26-06-2011, 07:50 PM
I suppose it's an asteroid. But since I haven't encountered this in an image sequence before I thought it may be a good opportunity to learn something more about them.
I was doing an image sequence on M20 last night (25th June) between about 7.30 and 10.30 taking 10-minute subs in Ha, O3 and SII. I happenied to be scanning some of the Maxim raw subs and thought I detected movement. And sure enough, there it was.
It shows up in the O3 and SII subs but not the Ha - possibly swamped by the intrinsic brightness of Ha. But here are some crops from the O3 and SII subs that I have marked with the time of the subs.
I can only attach 8 JPGs at a time here, it seems, so I'll put the remainder in another message.

I wonder how one goes from here to track down an object sich as this.
Peter

gbeal
26-06-2011, 07:52 PM
Absolutely no idea Peter, but have you tried a "movie" animation, to show the movement?
Gary

pmrid
26-06-2011, 07:52 PM
Her's the remainder of the sequence.
I was imaging through an EdgeHD1400 at 3900 (F11) with an ATIK11002M.
Peter

multiweb
26-06-2011, 07:59 PM
Could be a dust mote on your optics. Are you flat fielding?

pmrid
26-06-2011, 08:10 PM
Hi Marc. Nope. Not a dust mote - it moves in a precisely linear way from sub to sub and in a sub, you can see the elongation due to the length of the exposure. It's definetely "out there" and not inside the scope.
Peter

pmrid
26-06-2011, 08:11 PM
Beyond my computer skills I'm afraid.
Peter

von Tom
26-06-2011, 08:53 PM
Hi Peter - what ever that is it's well spotted! Here's my go at animating one set.

Cheers,

Tom

CometGuy
26-06-2011, 09:13 PM
Peter,

This is problably asteroid (4520) Dovzhenko. Try the Minor Planet Checker here:

http://mpcapp1.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/mpcheck.cgi

Terry

mithrandir
26-06-2011, 09:19 PM
CdC says your most likely object would be 4520 Dovzhenko at mag 14.9

Parameters from MPCORB

04520 13.0 0.15 K1128 263.62768 258.43991 94.46119 4.26138 0.2201549 0.28736552 2.2742923 0 MPO169569 814 17 1955-2009 0.58 M-v 38h MPCADO 0000 (4520) Dovzhenko 20091216

pmrid
27-06-2011, 05:07 AM
Thanks guys. I guess I need to load some asteroid data into CdD.
Peter

mithrandir
29-06-2011, 11:39 PM
For extra credit see if you can get this one.

2123 Vltava (mag 15.5) should be very close to the centre of M8 on July 3 at about 01:30. The track dots are every 30 mins.