8 Sep
2010
8 Sep
'10
12:41 a.m.
Quite a difference between last night when 2010 RF12 took over an hour to cross my imager's FOV and tonight when it took all of 5 minutes. Tonight's animation is a series of 45 5" exposures taken in quick succession between 0330 and 0337 UTC. North is up, east to the left. FOV is about 18' x 26'. Distance was about 345,000 km. I'd hoped to get it closer in but it looks like the weather's going to put the kibosh on that. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2010RF12.GIF patrick