2022-07-10, 05:33 PM
Hi Dennis,
That's really great work. I suspect that you're correct that the new mount has upset the cloud gods - it's really impressive. The trailed stars are very straight, even over the series of 5 minute exposures.
I looks like the NEO was moving ~3x faster on Jul 10 than on Jul 9. Geometry makes all the difference I guess. The relative velocity wasn't that high (8.30 km.sec), but it was only 0.00257 AU distant per the CNEOS website.
Good to know that the NEO was where the MPC's elements predicted that it would be.
Ledge, I hope you can keep the water in the lake insted of letting it all run out into the ocean like the @#$%&# in California seem to be doing with their's.
Phil S.
That's really great work. I suspect that you're correct that the new mount has upset the cloud gods - it's really impressive. The trailed stars are very straight, even over the series of 5 minute exposures.
I looks like the NEO was moving ~3x faster on Jul 10 than on Jul 9. Geometry makes all the difference I guess. The relative velocity wasn't that high (8.30 km.sec), but it was only 0.00257 AU distant per the CNEOS website.
Good to know that the NEO was where the MPC's elements predicted that it would be.
Ledge, I hope you can keep the water in the lake insted of letting it all run out into the ocean like the @#$%&# in California seem to be doing with their's.
Phil S.