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Old 04-11-2011, 11:01 AM
Rob_K
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Originally Posted by ZeroID View Post
Mmm, 4:30 pm NZ time, can someone turn off that bright light in the sky for a couple of hours and I'll take a look see....
And later on in the evening of the 9th there'll be that other bright light, a big fat gibbous Moon! After twilight 2005 YU55 will only be about 20-deg from the Moon viewed from my place, and will close in on it over the evening. Still 'bright' in the high mag 11s, but pretty difficult to view/capture. Info from JPL Small-Body Database Browser:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top

Put "2005 YU55" in the Search box, hit enter, click on "Ephemeris", then input your observer location and a time span.

Cheers -
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