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Originally Posted by Atmos
Fantastic results! Didn't even know that you could Hyperstar a Meade. I am sure someone will go and write a paper on it at some point, not my field of research though :/
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The older 14"ers had a Hyperstar, otherwise its purely a Celestron thing.
A paper is likely to follow - It turns out that my observation means that the TNO is somewhat larger than expected which means that it is either irregular or less dense than usual. Both outcomes are getting the professional community animated!
Normally it requires at least two observations of an object during a single event to provide a significant scientific payload. We just got lucky that I may have been very close to the Centre line so that despite not being able to construct a shape from two or more chords, there is enough data to be interesting!