NEO 2014 SC324
Taken by Dennis Simmons on October 25, 2014 @
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
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Date Taken: 2014:10:25 05:21:23
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A big flash followed by a loud kaboom informed me that our local electricity substation had just blown itself up, barely a minute after I had aligned the mount and cooled the ST2000XM ccd camera, anticipating the imminent collision between the 65m NEO 2014 SC324 and Globular Cluster NGC 1817. It was 1:10am.
With no power and just over 1 hour to go before NEO 2014 SC324 was due to pierce the heart of NGC 1817 (Globular Cluster in Taurus) I ‘phoned the electricity company to be informed that a crew was already on its way to attend the fault.
At 2:20am the power flickered back on so I rushed outdoors and powered up the rig. I had just finished calibrating the auto guider when the little red dot of 2014 SC324 approached the edge of the ccd field of view, as displayed in The Sky X Pro – whew, what timing!
This lump of rock (1.5LD, 65m) was whizzing along, leaving long, faint dashes from each 60 sec exposure. It only took nine giant leaps to traverse the 27 arc min field, leaving me time to grab the 3x60 sec RGB frames, hoping to create an LRGB image before breakfast.
What a lucky night’s imaging!
Cheers
Dennis
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