Guest peter shah Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 A bit cheeky to post it here but I suppose it has a deep sky object in it....asteroid 2012 DA14 flies past NGC 4605, 10mins in RGB and 30s for the flyby.... Thanks for looking Peter http://www.flickr.com/photos/astropix/8482960903/in/photostream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 Very nice Peter-I wondered if anyone on here had managed to get a shot of it. Good work-lovely pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 That is really nice and I'm sure it took quite a lot of planning. I reckon you caught the asteroid near the galaxy at about 21.50. Some depth of focus there . It is amazing to think that at that time, one was about 30,000 miles away and the other 15 million light years, with a few intermediate stars at a few hundred light years! I like to try and visualise it in 3d. I printed off some Stellarium maps and plotted the asteroid as best I could, noting several brightish galaxies and stars in CVn and UMa and the times that it would pass by in the same eyepiece field, including this 11th mag one. Had the scope out for 4 hours under clouds and never saw a thing. My depth of focus was limited to about 1000 metres on that night . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Hi Peter very nice image I had wall to wall cloud Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I keep getting server hangup and connection refused, will try again tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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