2023-03-31, 05:12 AM
Well, what a night of inglorious failure! 
After last night’s thunderstorm, the Brisbane skies cleared and as a bonus, the rain had cleansed the atmosphere of all the heat haze. A clear night was forecast (Thursday 30/03/2023 AEST) so I set up for 2023 FH7.
My MX+ mount can track at the (custom) rate of a selected object (as distinct from Sidereal Rate) but I have to use the mount SW to do this, which means I also have to use it for finding/tracking the objects.
Anyhow, I slewed to the plotted position of 2023 FH7 and began a series of exposures.
Unfortunately, something went wrong, as when I inspect the images this morning, 2023 FH7 is consistently some 2 or 3 FOV’s ahead (approx. 1 to 1.5 degrees) of where I grabbed the images.
Here is one 60 sec sub-frame tracked on the "phantom" position of 2023 FH7 showing that I missed it by “just that much”! I suspect that if I had been in the right FOV, my system might well have recorded the faint spec of the fast moving NEO.
Cheers
Dennis
After last night’s thunderstorm, the Brisbane skies cleared and as a bonus, the rain had cleansed the atmosphere of all the heat haze. A clear night was forecast (Thursday 30/03/2023 AEST) so I set up for 2023 FH7.
My MX+ mount can track at the (custom) rate of a selected object (as distinct from Sidereal Rate) but I have to use the mount SW to do this, which means I also have to use it for finding/tracking the objects.
Anyhow, I slewed to the plotted position of 2023 FH7 and began a series of exposures.
Unfortunately, something went wrong, as when I inspect the images this morning, 2023 FH7 is consistently some 2 or 3 FOV’s ahead (approx. 1 to 1.5 degrees) of where I grabbed the images.
Here is one 60 sec sub-frame tracked on the "phantom" position of 2023 FH7 showing that I missed it by “just that much”! I suspect that if I had been in the right FOV, my system might well have recorded the faint spec of the fast moving NEO.
Cheers
Dennis