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I did it - Asteroid 90377 Sedna

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#1 Bart Declercq

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 11:13 AM

I had to take images on two separate nights so I could use blinking to find the asteroid, but I managed to locate it in both images on the 4th and 7th of October.

 

The best image is a 3 hour totale exposure from last night, the green circle marks Sedna itself, at magnitude 20.9 one of the faintest things I've definitively images:

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Conditions weren't great (lots of high clouds) so probably this doesn't represent some kind of absolute limit for my scope. The October 4th was much worse, transparency was beter but the seeing and the focus were worse *and* I forgot to update the pointing coördinates so the asteroid was way off-center in my image.

 

Still, I made an animated GIF showing the displacement of the asteroid in those three days (beware, the GIF is slightly over 3MB in size) : https://farm2.static...41c732bbb_o.gif

 

 

 

 

 



#2 RunningMan

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 11:40 AM

Cool! Great work!



#3 RyanSem

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 12:07 PM

That's great! Congrats!



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Posted 08 October 2018 - 12:12 PM

Ya nailed it, Bart! Good work!!



#5 Jon Rista

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 02:05 PM

Congrats! Reaching nearly 21mag from light polluted skies with thin clouds is quite a feat. 



#6 Gary Riley

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 08:32 PM

Good job!

#7 Gabor Kiss

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 08:02 AM

Great job Bart,

 

Can I ask what type of scope did you use + mount? 

 

200 minutes was a single frame and you combined two of those?

 

Cheers,

Gabor


Edited by Gabor Kiss, 09 October 2018 - 08:03 AM.


#8 Bart Declercq

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 12:37 PM

Great job Bart,
 
Can I ask what type of scope did you use + mount? 
 
200 minutes was a single frame and you combined two of those?
 
Cheers,
Gabor

I'm using a 50cm F/4 Newtonian telescope on an original Mesu mount. The image is a stack 1 minute individual exposures - the "2x200min" I should have written differently, it's referring to two different nights (4 Oct and 10 Oct) each time about 200 minutes of total exposure time.



#9 Gabor Kiss

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Posted 09 October 2018 - 08:47 PM

A real beast Bart, thanks for the answer! wink.gif




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