Hello,
Here is an animated movie sequence of the minor planet 7 Iris approaching the spectacular Sombrero galaxy, M104, as recorded from Brisbane on 6th May 2008, between 7:34pm and 10:21pm AEST (GMT+10).
This sequence of 30 individual frames was captured using a Takahashi Mewlon 180 telescope and SBIG ST7E CCD camera with an x0.8 reducer/corrector. Each sub frame was exposed for 5 minutes.
WARNING: File size = 1.7Mb.
Iris and M104 animation
Cheers
Dennis