Hispania Passing NGC 5101 The Brightest Asteroid I ve Ever Seen - Adam Lundie - Eatons Hill Observatory

Hispania Passing NGC 5101. The Brightest Asteroid I've Ever Seen

19-May-2016
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Hispania Passing NGC 5101. The Brightest Asteroid I've Ever Seen
Hispania (1915 WT) is the brightest asteroid I've ever seen. It's so bright, I had to remove it from each frame for plate solving to work. Also moving through the frame is another named asteroid: Geowilliams (1984 UL2)

Skybot Confirmation:
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Image:

  • 25x 480s Luminance bin2x2 + 15 flat + 50x dark + 120x bias
  • Total time 3 hours 20 minutes.

Hardware:

  • Celestron EdgeHD 1100
  • Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x Focal Reducer
  • SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
  • QSI 683-wsg Camera @ -15°C
  • Astronomik Typ 2c luminance filter
  • Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
  • Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
  • Starlight Xpress Adaptive Optics

Software:

  • Captured with AstroArt 6
  • Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
  • CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
  • CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack
  • AstroTortilla: Plate solving.
  • Aladin 9: Astrometry.
  • Photoshop CC: Labels, cross hair, animation.

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