Thanks for the complements Al and Steve.
Steve – the variations in brightness and apparent tumbling are the results of thin clouds drifting in and some tracking problems!
I obtained the “heads up” from
Spaceweather which lists current NEA’s and then I used The Sky 6 Pro to download the latest orbital elements from the
Minor Planet Centre file of
astorb.dat and then did a GoTo.
If was quite remarkable seeing this object move in real time over a period of 60 seconds.
Cheers
Dennis