I just wanted to know the asteroid limiting magnitude of this setup : Tak FS102NSV@f6.2 + QHY6 unfiltered tiny CCD. I made 4x20 min subs (I only used 3) and captured asteroids up to 18.8 mag.
No darks or flats made at the time (unfortunately)!
Inverted images.
Wonderful animation Paulo, you must be pleased with the results!
Cheers - Rob
2009-11-24 14:24:03 GMT
paulobao
I love to track these little rocks. My deepest one was mag 19.2 in a rendez-vous with M33 last December (you can see 3 asteroids "around" M33). My numberest is 12 asteroids + 1 NEO in M45 all in the same field.
Regards,
paulo
2009-11-24 19:17:57 GMT
Ynefel
This is amazing! How did you know that you would catch all of these in one fov?
Congrats,
Robert
2009-11-24 20:33:23 GMT
Tavi
Paulo, I saw that 12+1 image yesterday. Very cool! What was the fov for that?
2009-11-24 21:26:28 GMT
paulobao
Thanks again.
I use CDC and the full MPC catalog (now with more than 400000 asteroids) so it is easy to know how many I will catch with a particular setup. Hope one day find one that is not in the MPC yet .
About the 12+1 FOV is about 2 degrees. That particular GIF have a funny story. The spanish astronomer who stacked the image was happy to "find" an asteroid in the photo. I told him I could find at least 12 if he send me the individual subs. And I found all and a bonus NEO!
regards
2009-11-26 11:14:30 GMT
ak666666
I am amazed how you know the location of these rocks. This is a new branch of astrophotography.
Ali
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