Asteroid 1036 Ganymed 7 Oct 2011 23:14-23:53

[The Thing]

Update -- Now it should repeat forever! --

I thought I would give this a go as it was in a good spot and Cartes de Ciel said it would be mag 8.6.

Canon 350Da, Baaded Alan Gee II Telecompressor, CLS-CCD clip filter... so not the ideal rig. And I should have collimated first, but I was only testing out my DEC axis rebuild (after the High Halden gear screech fest last Saturday night). No processing. Animated in CS4. However I can't get it to animate the frame in the right order so the asteroid ismoving backwards in this clip!

This is a 640x480 central crop as the rest was just space . 2.4Mb.
30x30s @800ISO

[Mike]

Excellent Duncan. I really like to see asteroid animations.

[RobertM]

Nice one - it's refreshing to see these and something we neglect in our imaging schedules.

Robert

[JohnP]

So why can't I see the animation... all I get is what looks a star field?

[JohnP]

OK - just tried in IE & it works (although doesn't loop) for some reason in firefox all I get displayed is last frame of animation....

[Fay]

That is really good Duncan, what a change

Fay

[Mac]

excellent capture

[Rocket Pooch]

Works with my Firefox, good image Duncan.

[JohnP]

Yep - seems to be working with mine now after a restart... I think I had a few gremlins inside my laptop yesterday - kinda doing weird things...

Welcome back Chris by the way....

[mickw]

That's brilliant, nice one Duncan

[doug]

Great stuff, Duncan.  That is brilliant.  Are you going to put it as an avatar.........

Doug.

[MarkS]

I love it!

Nice one Duncan.

Mark

[The Thing]

Thanks for all the positive comments folks, much appreciated. Now we just have to wait for Mark to do one with some surface detail... 

Are you going to put it as an avatar.........
Doug.

But then I would would have to change my 'handle' to 'Moving Blob' raher than 'The Thing'. Mind you my Fiona would think that 'Moving Blob' is even more appropriate a moniker .