20 exposures of 15 seconds each on 1 minute boundaries, 20 minutes elapsed time
First frame: '18:56:31.700' EST Nov 3/ 23:56:31 UT Nov 3
Last frame: '19:16:18.970' EST Nov 3/ 00:16:18.97 UT Nov 4
10 inch lx200 @ F3, ToUCam Pro modified to SC1.5 and cooled.
Image width approx 11.4 arc minutes, 1.5arcsec/pixel
This was an interesting challenge, at roughly mag 13.85 and moving
roughly 7.5arcsec per frame time of 15sec, not much light (about 3sec/pixel)!
Click here for a 20 frame animated gif (206k)
Track of Hermes during the time span
( approx 9.5 arcminute long track in 20 minutes)
The following images is full frame #18 from the sequence:
Ephemerides generated with " Ephemeris Generator" , click here
Nov-03 23:45 20 50 16.29 -08 54 04.2 13.85 0.0478629335
Exposure
Nov-04 00:00 20 49 46.22 -08 54 41.3 13.85 0.0478592120
Nov-04 00:15 20 49 16.16 -08 55 18.3 13.85 0.0478558478E
Nov-04 00:30 20 48 46.11 -08 55 55.0 13.86 0.0478528379
Nov-04 00:45 20 48 16.06 -08 56 31.4 13.86 0.0478501788
Nov-04 01:00 20 47 46.03 -08 57 07.6 13.87 0.0478478662
Nov-04 01:15 20 47 16.02 -08 57 43.6 13.87 0.0478458953
Nov-04 01:30 20 46 46.03 -08 58 19.4 13.88 0.0478442607
Nov-04 01:45 20 46 16.06 -08 58 55.0 13.88 0.0478429565
Nov-04 02:00 20 45 46.11 -08 59 30.3 13.89 0.0478419762
Nov-04 02:15 20 45 16.19 -09 00 05.4 13.89 0.0478413127
Closest
Nov-04 02:30 20 44 46.30 -09 00 40.3 13.90 0.0478409586
Nov-04 02:45 20 44 16.44 -09 01 15.0 13.90 0.0478409059
Nov-04 03:00 20 43 46.62 -09 01 49.5 13.91 0.0478411464
Captured in Astrovideo scripting
registered in IRIS
batch cropped and converted to gif in Irfanview
animated with unfreez.
Some good info on 1937 UB/Hermes
Scroll down to the table of 'Close Approaches'
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