Close approach of near-Earth asteroid, 2012 DA14

2012-02-15

See more at Peter's Weblog

See also February 16 lightcurve

2012-02-15

17" CDK,f/6.8, SBIG STL-11000 camera

Damian also picked it up in binoculars from Hamble, UK

2012-02-15

See more at Nick's animation

Imaged through 'holes' in cloud layer

See more at Ian's webpage

Location: 50°45'09"N, 000°48'27"W

Galaxy in the field is NGC 4346

2012-02-15

See more at Peter's animation

0.06-m Refr., ST8300 camera, 4-sec exposures

2012-02-15

0.20-m Celestron, f/2, start time: 20:40:27UT, 5-sec exposures. Galaxy in field is NGC 4244

2012-02-15

Robin secured a spectrum of the asteroid. Click on the image to go to the Spectroscopy Forum discussion with further results

2012-02-15

Click on the image to see animation. Asteroid enters frame at 20.59.29 UT and exited at 21.00.19 UT

2012-02-15

Further images on Jay's Facebook album. Click on image to link

2012-02-15

0.35-m SCT, ST9, 3x20 sec 21:38:33UT

2012-02-15

0.075-m Refr., f/4, ST7XME, start time: 23:12:45UT, 180-sec exposure

2012-02-15

0.61-m Refl., f/4.75, STL-1001 camera, start time: 20:04:52UT, 30-sec exposure - first image of this asteroid taken from UK, altitude 8°

2012-02-15

Location: 53°53'N, 001°34'W

Canon 550D, 200mm f/2.8, ISO 1600

Click on image for animation

2012-02-15

20:45 UT, Canon 500D, 135mm f/5.6, 75-sec exposure, ISO 1600

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2012-02-15

0.4-m SCT, f/6.3, ST9-XE, 30-sec exposures

Astrometry reported using 0.5 and 1.0 sec exposures

2012-02-15

Canon 1100D, 0.08-m Refr., 2x240 sec exposures

Galaxy in the field is NGC 4244

2012-02-15

0.2-m SCT, Canon 600D, 75-sec exposure, ISO6400

Roy also observed visually starting at 2010UT

2012-02-15

See Alex's real-time video

0.10-m Refr., f/6, Mintron camera, 0.04-sec integrations. Motion of 10th magnitude asteroid is evident.

N.B. Video - 10sec duration 4Mb, some bright spots are hot pixels.

2012-02-15

Click on thumbnail to connect to Bill's animation

Watec 120N integrating video camera + Nikon 135mm f/2 lens, 1-sec exposure (32 frames summed)

2012-02-15

Click on thumbnail to see Richard's animation

Canon 5D, 200mm f/2.8, 4 sec, ISO 6400

2012-02-15

Canon 1100D, 90mm f.l. lens, f/4.5

on an AstroTrac mount