As well as capturing asteroid JO25 2014 on the single Sky 90/M26C – I also managed to grab 16 subs on the two 200mm lenses with the Trius M26Cs.
Sub number 12 (counting down from the top) is missing as I had cloud over the region during that 5-minutes.
As I couldn’t properly process this data myself, I sent it over to Noel Carboni in Florida USA who did the most superb job as you can see below. Thank you Noel!!
I was blessed by (mostly) clear, Moonless skies at the New Forest Observatory on the night of 19/04/2014.
I set up a single Sky 90/M26C and both 200mm lenses/Trius M26Cs on the asteroid JO25 2014 which was moving through Canes Venatici at the time.
The negative black and white image below shows the asteroid in 5-minute exposures with 1-minute gaps between exposures. The field of view in this image is 3.33 x 2.22 degrees, so you can see the asteroid is really moving through at quite a pace (because it is so close to us).
I was actually in two minds as to whether I could be bothered to go out and get set up that evening as I wasn’t sure whether I was going to get clouded out or not – you cannot imagine how pleased I was that I wasn’t lazy that evening!
As we are entering galaxy season, Leo is well-placed for imaging. So I went for a deep shot of Regulus as I wanted to get the dwarf galaxy Leo I. What I was not expecting to get was this object in the FOV – http://epod.usra.edu/blog/
Thank you Jim at EPOD for continuing to publish my work.
A spectacular display of the Perseids this year! I took 220 frames and 27 frames had a meteor – the colourful Perseid below was the best image of the evening. The persistent thin high cloud miraculously cleared around 11 p.m. and then the Moon set at 12:30 a.m. to give a superb evening’s viewing. Don’t get many nights like that one.