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Old 25-06-2009, 10:21 PM
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Strange Object in my Image

Hi Guys, I was out last imaging, and although the night was clear and crisp I some how missed my target and did 4 hours on a star field instead of the target that I had planned to image.

However that is an other story, but I do have a strange object in this star field, the stars are round but this thing is a moving object of sorts and was wondering if some one could shed some light on it.

I was imaging the Rho Complex, but missed the target

The exposure is a combination of 16 frames at 7 minutes each, a total of 112 minutes, Taken on June 24th from 9.10 pm to 25th June concluding at 1.35 am

One frame was ejected because of poor seeing and that is the break we can see in line of the final image.

Please see below the original widefield, and then two cropped images out of the widefield

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Old 25-06-2009, 10:31 PM
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times Leon Times?
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Old 25-06-2009, 10:32 PM
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Hi Leon,

hmmm, looks like it might be an asteroid? I have seen a few pics that look similar to this.

Wasnt anywhere near Pluto's position was it?

Just a thought.

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Old 26-06-2009, 08:05 AM
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Yep Houghy, i agree, thought about that when I was in bed, that I hasn't entered the times I will add it to the top post, sorry.

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Old 26-06-2009, 08:20 AM
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I thought he meant what times were the shots taken to help establish what should have been in that field of view at the time?
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Old 26-06-2009, 08:23 AM
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Hi Leon,

The top right hand corner star is Beta Scorpii.
It was a minor planet, 144 Vibilia, it was 12th magnitude and by my reckoning you took the image on the evening of the 24th, roughly between 10pm and 2am EAST. There were at least a dozen other asteroids in the field at the time but none brighter than about 15th magn.

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Old 26-06-2009, 08:38 AM
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looks like glens on to it, this area of the sky runs right through the ecliptic, therefore being on a plane with the planets and as such all the asteroids, its somewhat unavoidable if you shoot in that line.
it makes it interesting though


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Old 26-06-2009, 10:04 AM
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Yes Troy I think he did , so I have just added that to the original post, and Glenn I think you might be right as the time i was imaging is in the time frame that you have mentioned, thanks guys for your response.

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Old 26-06-2009, 10:31 AM
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Old 26-06-2009, 04:35 PM
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Nice capture Leon. A minor planet Hey..... If you were planning to capture this something would have gone wrong. Another one for your archives.
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Old 26-06-2009, 05:40 PM
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Yea your right Doug if this were planned I would have better luck winning Tattslotto, thanks mate.

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Old 26-06-2009, 11:27 PM
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Well done leon - love the tightness and colour of the stars too
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Old 27-06-2009, 10:36 AM
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Leon, I know this is a bit left field, but could have that been one of the stages from the LCROSS/LRO (NASA) mission, that was just recently launched?
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Old 27-06-2009, 07:31 PM
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Thanks Doug, I actually quite like this shot, although I did miss the target that I was planning to image, never mind there is always tomorrow.

A Brett in response to your question, to be honest I don't really know.

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Old 01-07-2009, 11:34 PM
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Nice shot there, Leon. An asteroid for the collection

Although, you could say....queue the "Twilight Zone" theme....maybe it's really a "Grey" mothership coming to pick up all their lost comrades out at Area 51
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Old 02-07-2009, 07:15 PM
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Leon,
I found a pic on one of the NASA websites (LCROSS/LRO) and someone managed to picture it (The LRO)
http://www.backyardastronomer.com/lc...0629-anim2.gif

Unsure on the time of exposure, just thought it might of been something else to ponder.
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Old 02-07-2009, 07:56 PM
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Glenn has it correct. Just confirmed with Starry Night Pro Plus.

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Old 02-07-2009, 08:40 PM
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Very interesting guys thanks for the info Brett and Humayum.

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