Thanks Paul for the heads up, and thanks guys for your nice words of encouragement. It’s great to see Southern Hemisphere amateur astronomy so prominent on the world stage…..even though by birth, I am a Pom! LOL!
Thank you for looking and posting your nice feedback, I appreciate it.
This one almost caught me out as I hadn’t really planned for the session. I had planned to image some small galaxies but a tree was in the way so whilst waiting, I jumped on the web and had a look at SpaceWeather and lo and behold, 2008 TT26 was due to make its fly by that very evening!
I used The Sky 6 Pro to download the orbital elements, crossed my fingers and did a “Find” object and it showed that TT26 would indeed be above the horizon in over an hour’s time – often these objects are below the horizon so it was nice to find this one getting up to around 40 degrees altitude later in the evening.
On the computer, I had CCDSoft (camera control software) and The Sky 6 Professional running, zoomed in to show the field of view of my CCD chip. I kept hitting the refresh button as TT26 approached the FOV indicator then I flicked to the live image in CCDSoft and it was quite amazing to see the live TT26 pop into the CCD frame at the place and time displayed by The Sky 6 simulation!
What I hadn’t really expected was the pace of this fella, so I had to grab some quick images to establish the optimum exposure, then leap frog ahead of the rock to begin capturing the trail.
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Congratulations Dennis, our other Spaceweather winner.
Well done Dennis 
