My attempt at 2005 YU55

[Terry B]

Dear All
I was able to take some pretty ordinary images of this asteroid last night (9/11/11) through passing cloud.
I have made an animation of about 21 frames and it can be seen here
http://youtu.be/PZUFI181y88
I am not very skilled at making these films but you get the idea. Each exposure was 20 sec long through a V filter.
The asteroid moved about 20arcsec in each frame.

[ballaratdragons]

Hey that was cool Terry!

Thanks for showing us.
That's the best one i've seen yet.

But how did you get it. I was under the impression that it passed us in daylight hours :shrug:

[Terry B]

I took the images last night. It was pretty close to the moon but not the sun. It had it's closest approach to earth the evening before late in the afternoon.

[ballaratdragons]

Wow, nicely done :thumbsup:

[Merlin66]

Excellent capture there!!
Well done!