Lucy Spacecraft
Taken by Patrick Wiggins, NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador to Utah on October 16, 2022 @
Tooele, Utah, USA (IAU 718)
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft that will eventually visit the area around Jupiter zipped past Earth this morning, 16 October 2022 UTC. It was moving VERY fast so I tried three 1 second exposures and got long streaks, three .25 second exposures with shorter streaks and finally six .10 second exposures with tiny streaks. That’s one fast mover.
All of those images were taken between 1126 and 1138 Universal Time when the craft moved from about 9,400km to about 13,200km away. In each of the images north is up and east to the left. Field of view is 18x26 arc minutes. Images taken with an SBIG ST-10 through a 35cm Celestron 14 telescope operating at f/5.5. Following that I was able to see Lucy by looking though a relatively small 12.5cm Celestron 5 telescope.
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