NEO 2008 TZ3
Taken by Dennis Simmons on May 5, 2016 @
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
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Date Taken: 2016:05:05 08:19:19
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Whilst Brisbane was sleeping, my ‘scope was turned skywards, hunting NEO 2008 TZ3, a large, 355 metre asteroid scheduled to slip past our planet Earth at a distance of only 13.1 LD.
I managed to find this magnitude 15.0 rock, silently gliding through the rich stellar background of the Milky Way, passing within half a lunar diameter of a pretty globular cluster, NGC 6624. My ccd chip wasn’t large enough to squeeze these two objects within the same field of view, so I captured two sets of images and created a mosaic to display these celestial objects, passing like ghostly ships in the night.
The sub-frame exposures were 60 secs each, captured on 5th May 2016, between 00:12am and 01:09am AEST (UT+10).
Celestron C9.25, x0.63 RC, SBIG ST2000XM ccd camera.
Cheers
Dennis
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