Not a very close encounter of Toutatis with Earth on Sept. 29 (some 1.5 lunar distances) but fun to see an asteroid move so fast on the sky. Sept. 22 when this sequence was taken, was about the last day for us Northerners to see Toutatis, as it was rapidly racing South and the moon was growing and approaching it.
- Juergen
Image Data: 4179 Toutatis moving throught the constellation of Capricornus
5-inch Starfire Refractor f/8
ST-7XME Camera, 1.83 arcsec/pixel , unfiltered
Location: Montebello Open Space Preserver above Palo Alto, CA at
37°19'31.1" N and 122°10'42.5" W, Elevation: 640.0m.
Begin of Sequence: 22 Sept 2004, 0850 UT
End of Sequence: 22. Sept 2004, 11.06 UT
Individual exposure time: 20 sec, stack of 31 images
Movement of Toutatis: 650 arcsec in 141 min, 4.6 arcsec/min
Star lower left: SAO 190418 at mv = 8.51
Star lower right: GSC 6936:392 at mv = 10.68
- Juergen
Image Data: 4179 Toutatis moving throught the constellation of Capricornus
5-inch Starfire Refractor f/8
ST-7XME Camera, 1.83 arcsec/pixel , unfiltered
Location: Montebello Open Space Preserver above Palo Alto, CA at
37°19'31.1" N and 122°10'42.5" W, Elevation: 640.0m.
Begin of Sequence: 22 Sept 2004, 0850 UT
End of Sequence: 22. Sept 2004, 11.06 UT
Individual exposure time: 20 sec, stack of 31 images
Movement of Toutatis: 650 arcsec in 141 min, 4.6 arcsec/min
Star lower left: SAO 190418 at mv = 8.51
Star lower right: GSC 6936:392 at mv = 10.68
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