Observation by Nick Quinn: JUICE at 1.1 million miles from Earth

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Nick Quinn

Observer

Nick Quinn

Observed

2023 Apr 21 - 22:30

Uploaded

2023 Apr 22 - 17:06

Objects

Spacecraft

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Constellation

Virgo

Field centre

RA: 12^h19^m
Dec: -03°10'
Position angle: -179°58'

Field size

0°34' × 0°26'

Equipment

Celestron C11
SBIG STF-8300M

Exposure

480 secs

Location

Steyning, West Sussex

Target name

JUICE

Title

JUICE at 1.1 million miles from Earth

About this image

JUICE is still visible at a distance of nearly 1.8 million kms! The mount had to track the spacecraft in order to record it (RA/Dec offset rate calculated using JPL Horizons data). JUICE was too faint/moving too fast to show on an image tracked at sidereal rate (bottom right). Using GAIA 'G' band catalogue the original image records stars to fainter than 18th magnitude.

Files associated with this observation

juice_20230421T2230.jpg (1.4 MB)

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Comments

Grant Privett, 2023 Apr 22 - 20:12 UTC

Nice work.

Looks like, by stacking, you should reach 2million miles...

When I last caught it, it was still dimly visible in single frames, but not impressive.

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