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Old 15-02-2013, 11:17 PM
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Nico13 (Ken)
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First images Asteroid DA14. (added another image)

Hi guys,
Well it's clear enough at the moment so I thought I'd have a go at it and to find it I used Sky Safari to locate it on the iPhone then used that info to point the scope in TheSky6 and bingo.

8" Meade SCT with reducer flattener and my Pentax K5D
300 secs iso 800 and some rough processing.

Upper left and then with Satellite trail

I've added another shot from exactly three hrs later just before I lost it.
You can see the speed increase as the first two shots were five min exposures and the last is only a four min but the distance traveled is significantly further.
The clouds closed in not long after anyway so I was very happy that I started early and caught it while it was still a long way out and traveling slow enough to keep in the frame.
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Last edited by Nico13; 16-02-2013 at 07:30 PM. Reason: Added more Images
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