Earlier in the day I was taking some images of the Sun spot AR1040 and after processing them, I noticed
Ricci’s post on 2010 AL30 so visited Spaceweather to discover a new listing for NEO 2010 AL30. The JPL Horizons site revealed that this object should be visible from Brisbane on 12th Jan at around mag 16.4.
I left my gear set up in the back garden but around dusk, banks of clouds rolled in, covering the NE thus threatening to spoil the evening session. After playing hide-and-seek with the clouds during the early evening, I eventually managed to grab 2 frames that just about revealed the faint, but very fast moving NEO, before the clouds blotted out that region. The 1st frame was through thin cloud and I didn’t have time to set up auto guiding so the 120 sec exposures are unguided.
Cheers
Dennis