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Minor planet 532 Herculina (movement over 24 hours)
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Object(s):
Minor Planet 532 Herculina

Constellation:
Orion

Description:
Animated sequence of photo images showing movement of minor planet 532 Herculina through a starfield in Orion over a 24 hour period.

Movement of minor planet 532 Herculina against backdrop of stars over a 24 hour period

Date/Time:
Images taken 2000-Jan-03 21:50 UT and 2000-Jan-04 23:15 UT

Astrophoto Image:
Animated Sequence /
File: Herculina-animation-200001.gif (99 kb)
Subject: Herculina

Exposure:
5 min
Telescope tracking

Equipment/Film:
Equatorial Wedge/Permanent Pier
Setup: 300mm, f/8, Fujicolor Superia 200

Observer/Location:
David Richards
Backyard observatory [Hilltop]
(suburban site, 50m amsl, mag 4 to 5.5 skies)
Aberdeenshire, UK

Seeing:

Sky Position:

Processing:
2 images, each scanned from photo print, then enhanced (reduced shadow & sharpened), cropped, equatorial grid added by TheSky software and then animated.

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