Observation by Grant Privett: JUICE at 1.39M miles

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Grant Privett

Observer

Grant Privett

Observed

2023 Apr 24 - 00:05

Uploaded

2023 Apr 25 - 00:19

Objects

Spacecraft

Equipment

300mm f/4 Newtonian
NEQ6+Rowan belt upgrade
Starlight Xpress Trius 694 mono

Exposure

51x 60s x2 binned

Location

Near Salisbury

Target name

JUICE Spacecraft

Title

JUICE at 1.39M miles

About this image

Was surprised to get another half decent night - started ropey and improved after midnight, ending up with average seeing but quite good transparency

Went after JUICE again - yeah, I'm predictable.

It wasn't visible on the individual frames, but could be seen on the sidereally stacked image as a long faint trail. So, I stacked it based on the predicted path and it was more obvious.

A brightness measurement gave a value in Gaia g (unfiltered) of mag 18.7 but the error was +- 0.3mag.

If I try for it further away I will try using Tycho Stacker against the frames.

Files associated with this observation

juice20230423_stackedon.jpg (424.0 kB)

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