Asteroid Vesta Animation - Tuesday 25th Oct 2005

[Mike]

Here is an animation of the asteroid Vesta taken last night. It is made up of 32 images of 60 seconds in length taken straight after each other at approx. 0200 BST this morning. Take with an ED80 and SXV-H9. RA and DEC taken from Heavens Above website.

Be warned these files are large (6Mb and 2Mb)and may take a while to download (Hence the URL's and not the image) !

http://www.amateur-astronomy.org/images/vesta.gif

And here is a close up...

http://www.amateur-astronomy.org/images/vestabig.gif