

Asteroid (1277) Dolores 12-18-23 (GIF)
- Owner: russ75 (View all images and albums)
- Uploaded: Dec 25 2023 07:42 PM
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- Album: Comets & Asteroids

Close-up of asteroid (1277) Dolores taken with Orion ST-80 telescope and ZWO ASI482MC camera. The Minor Planet Center's predicted magnitude for this object was V 16.0.
Observation Details
December 18, 2023 04:53:41-05:59:27 UT
Seeing: Fair Transparency: Good Sky Condition: Bortle 7
Location: Edmond, Oklahoma USA
Image Details
69-minute time-lapse animation.
12 images, each a stack of 6 @ 60 seconds (total integration per image 360 seconds/ 6 minutes).
Gain 250
FOV:
14.8’ x 9.87’ (0.25° x 0.16°). Cropped and resized from original 1920×1080, 98.5’x55.4’ / 1.64°x 0.92°; original scale 3.08 “/pixel.
North up. East left.
Equipment
Telescope: Orion ST-80 (80 mm f/5) + Orion Field Flattener + Baader Fringe Killer Filter
Camera: ZWO ASI482MC
Guide Scope: SVBONY SV165 (30 mm f/4)
Mount: Celestron CGEM
Image Capture & Processing
Capture: SharpCap Pro
Guiding: PHD2
Process: Deep Sky Stacker, GIMP
1277 anim1 anno full merge 400x267 clean 8 Bit scale crop 800x500 121823 045341 055927z desat R Stack 16bits 6frames 360s