Observation by Nigel Evans: Nancy Roman Space Telescope

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Nigel Evans

Observer

Nigel Evans

Observed

2026 Sep 05 - 00:10

Uploaded

2026 Sep 05 - 11:03

Objects

Spacecraft

Equipment

200mm EdgeHD +ASI6200

Exposure

201*10sec

Location

Ipswich Suffolk

Target name

Nancy Roman Space Telescope

Title

Nancy Roman Space Telescope

About this image

Not visible from the observatory so the Edge HD was on an AM3 on a neighbour's drive, looking back over my house.

Mag 15.7, Range 635k km, Altitude 16degrees, FoV 13'

Unfortunately the carrier rocket was just outside the camera's FoV :-(

Files associated with this observation

20260905 Roman ST NSE.jpg (392.6 kB)

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Grant Privett, Robin Leadbeater, Mike Harlow, Dominic Ford

Comments

Grant Privett, 2026 Sep 05 - 11:11 UTC

Nicely done. That is low in the sky!

Here I would have to look through a hill.

Is that magnitude your estimate or Bill Greys?

Nigel Evans, 2026 Sep 05 - 14:16 UTC

Mine. In an individual frame the spacecraft is invisible. I stack on the stars, also on the spacecraft, then insert the spacecraft image into the starfield image. ASTAP does the rest.

Nick James, 2026 Sep 06 - 05:54 UTC

Great result. Can you get some astrometry out of this? Bill is collecting it here.

Nick James, 2026 Sep 06 - 06:56 UTC

I managed to get both the spacecraft and the upper stage using a 90mm refractor on Sept 4.9. They are currently too far south for my main telescope and the refractor is at the other end of the garden. I got Sloan r' mags of 15.2 for the spacecraft and 17.5 for the upper stage.

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