SpaceX Tesla at 3.7 million km distance, near a nice star cluster
Taken by Michael Keith on February 19, 2018 @
I captured this series of photos from my cozy home office in New Jersey using a remote-controlled 0.5-meter telescope at the Chilescope observatory a few hours north of Santiago, Chile.
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When I took the images comprising this GIF animation (during the early morning hours of Feb 19th) the SpaceX Tesla was at a distance of 3.7 million km from Earth (a new record, of course!). Although it is was very dim (about magnitude 19.8) I wanted to try and capture it because it was close in the sky to a nice globular star cluster known as NGC 5694, which is in the upper left corner of the image. This cluster is much farther away than the Tesla Roadster, at a distance of about 115,000 light years from Earth.
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