(meteorobs) asteroid over ic 410 ?

Nico Lonetti lonnic at inwind.it
Tue Feb 26 06:34:51 EST 2008


Hi,
I can confirm it is not an asteroid but
a couple of hot pixels ...

no asteroid for the moment.

Nico

http://www.lonnic.com/astro/ic0410.2008.02.24-velato.html


At 20.29 25/02/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Nico,
>
>      You got a nice "hopper" on your image of  IC410. It's orientation and
>speed makes it a good candidate for an asteroid. However, its direction is
>the exact opposite of the majority of asteroids in this part of the sky. Did
>you stack your animation from first to last shot? At a measured magnitude
>13.1, it would probably not be a new discovery since almost every asteroid
>brighter than 20th. magnitude has been found. But, there are no asteroids at
>that position on the date and time you posted. The only candidate that I
>could find was 2001 SY210 at 20.1 magnitude. This asteroid passes about 2
>arc-minutes north of your object tonight at about 10:30 PM your local time.
>I used an out-of-date database and it's a fairly recent discovery, so I'm
>not too sure how well  its orbit has been determined. Of course it's way too
>faint and traveling in the opposite direction from your animation.
>       The important thing to do is get out tonight and take follow-up images
>to verify the object. I'd give it a try, but it looks like I'll be clouded
>out tonight. If you can't do a follow-up, you might want to post a request
>on the Minor Planet Yahoo Group .... mpml-subscribe at yahoogroups.com .
>      Good Luck finding out about your mystery object. Please post a follow
>up if  learn anything new.
>
>Tristan DiLapo
>OrbitJet Observatory MPO#227
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nico Lonetti" <lonnic at inwind.it>
>To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
>Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 6:36 AM
>Subject: (meteorobs) asteroid over ic 410 ?
>
>
> > Hi,
> > last night I taken several frames of ic 410 in auriga.
> >
> > You can see the full resolution picture from here:
> >
> > http://www.lonnic.com/astro/ic0410.2008.02.24-velato.html
> >
> > At the moment I'm investigating to see if there is
> > a new asteroid over this nebula ..
> >
> > could someone help me ?
> > This is my firs asteroid over one of my ccd photo.
> >
> > Nico Lonetti,
> > Italy
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Nico Lonetti, Cosenza, Italy

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