Place your mouse over the 3 minute exposures above to see 2012 DA14's motion in 6 minutes
DATE-OBS = '2013-02-15T15:24:51.000' / GMT START OF EXPOSURE
Minor Planet 2012DA 14
Exposures through RGB filters show red, green and blue streaks of the Asteroid's motion against the background stars.
The object was quite faint, approx 11th magnitude. Each exposure was 30 seconds long. High cloud attenuated the blue exposure.
Astro-Physics Honders Astrograph, SBIG STT-8300.
The images below are approximately 1 degree wide.
Place your mouse over the 3 minute exposures above to see 2012 DA14's motion in 6 minutes
DATE-OBS = '2013-02-15T15:24:51.000' / GMT START OF EXPOSURE
Asteroid 2012 DA14 proved hard to track down, due its very fast motion across the sky, some local cloud and
inaccuracies of the orbital elements obtained from the MPC website (in TheSky6 below)
Note the differential between the 2:00am RA & Dec shown above and tabled below.
Thankfully the co-ordinates provided by CalSky (below) were very accurate, and allowed imaging of this fast moving asteroid as above.
Images copyright Peter J. Ward 2013
