Animation of my images of asteroid 2012 LZ1 from Monday night

I finally got around to making an animation of the 19 useful images I took Monday night.

I have cropped the original images so it shows a smaller field of view and the asteroid passes left to right across the middle of the field of view.
(The line that flashes on is a satellite that passed by during one of the images).

I have been informed at the time I took the images it was at around magnitude 15.8.
The apparent speed was 17.9 arcseconds per minute.

Dave

2 Comments for this entry

Wouter
June 28th, 2012 on 8:18 am
I counted up to 9 alternative objects in motion in your photo… the sky is busy!
Eagleseye
June 28th, 2012 on 1:14 pm
Unfortunately they are hot pixels on the CCD camera.