Hispania Passing NGC 5101. The Brightest Asteroid I've Ever Seen
19-May-2016
Hispania (1915 WT) is the brightest asteroid I've ever seen. It's so bright, I had to remove it from each frame for plate solving to work. Also moving through the frame is another named asteroid: Geowilliams (1984 UL2)
Skybot Confirmation:
Image:
- 25x 480s Luminance bin2x2 + 15 flat + 50x dark + 120x bias
- Total time 3 hours 20 minutes.
Hardware:
- Celestron EdgeHD 1100
- Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x Focal Reducer
- SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
- QSI 683-wsg Camera @ -15°C
- Astronomik Typ 2c luminance filter
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
- Starlight Xpress Adaptive Optics
Software:
- Captured with AstroArt 6
- Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
- CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
- CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack
- AstroTortilla: Plate solving.
- Aladin 9: Astrometry.
- Photoshop CC: Labels, cross hair, animation.