Movie
of the asteroid 1998 WT24
"The images were
taken by Alan Cahill from Gloucester, using a Starlight Express MX5
with 135mm telephoto lens, piggyback on celestron C5 scope. The individual
images were 20 second exposures. The first image was taken at 2201
UT and the last one at 2306 UT all on the 14th of December 2001. At
this time the asteroid was measured to be magnitude 9.3. Callum Potter
composed the attached animated GIF from Alan's images using The GIMP
image processing software. Alan Cahill and Callum Potter are both
members of the Cotswold Astronomical Society. For more of Alan's images,
check out his
website" |
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