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Old 07-01-2005, 12:48 AM
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[1ponders] (Paul)
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Thumbs up Want to try tracking asteroids

For those who like a challenge and maybe something new, here's something to sink you teeth into. There are currently two (at least) asteroids about to reach opposition in the next week (13th and 14th )at the same time as Saturn and within 5 degrees of Saturn.

They are Flora (8) and Herculina (532) and both are expected to reach mag 9 - 8.5 at opposition.

I've attached a table of their starting and finishing RA and DEC as of 7/1/05 to 22/1/05 at approximately 11:00 UT, along with the angular separation for each day of Saturn to each of the asteroids, to help in deciding what camera lens/eyepiece you might use.

This sky and telescope link may also help to find them.

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing...cle_1379_1.asp

Good luck with the challenge, hope to see some timelapse photos

ps download the file and open it in wordpad
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