(meteorobs) neo fly by

Mike Hankey mike.hankey at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 15:20:17 EDT 2011


Thanks for the responses Chris & Dan.

I mainly wanted to know if it would be worth trying to look for / even
possible. Sounds like it will be. So thanks!

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Well, that would certainly make it a challenging visual object. But it's
> a trivial imaging target at magnitude 11, even close to the Moon. Even a
> small refractor and a DSLR would capture it in just a few seconds of
> exposure.
>
> Certainly, there is a level of skill required to collect good
> astrometric or photometric data, but not a lot just to capture an image.
>
> Chris
>
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> On 11/1/2011 6:29 PM, dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de wrote:
>>> I didn't look at the elements).
>>
>> Which you should have done before posting: In spite of its size and
>> closeness 2005 YU55 with its very low albedo will never get brighter than
>> 11th magnitude - and will be only 10 degrees from the full moon when
>> closest! This is only one for experienced astrophotographers (who have
>> actually been asked to deliver astrometry and photometry) - and the radar
>> folks, of course.
>>
>> Dan
>
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