On the 19th July, having recorded what a few specks of light that I figured was a good candidate for the Dwarf Planet Quaoar, I decided to follow this up on the next clear night to see if I could capture its movement against the background stars. This turned out to be 24th July with a nearby Full Moon.
Having to contend not only with the light pollution of suburban Brisbane, I also suffered the insult of a nearby Full Moon. When combined with the real motion of Quaoar against the BG stars, I did not know if I would be able to capture the faint, mag 18.88 “smeared” path of Quaoar over the duration of the captures, compared to the more static locations of the fixed BG stars.
Here is a combined image from the 19th and 24th July showing Quaoar, along with a couple of zoomed in screen captures from The Sky X Pro showing the predicted positions for those nights.
Centre of image:
RA: 18h 17m 25.029s
Dec: -15° 14' 32.383"
FOV Size: 12.2 x 9.18 arcmin
Pixel scale: 0.459 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 359 degrees E of N
Cheers
Dennis