Friday, October 29, 2010
Well, I got an image from GRAS 14 ...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFK6xKMv6-HMUr4kqTPkSTJIplrINODwmws5Yc5nkFd3L7d9-AkrA_zWSma7n3Mys04L_fvRduGGVdhFvN0Gpgwl9WbOITWVIbAoojsj2Jzfcm9PiZ3i3ekrei8-roIR_QEfx/s320/2003UV11_G14_chart_29-10-10.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokmlf-W0inyyRHzoyEaS1zEvYGV1oSJosbsOMoKVUS12xZ5L8dOWpsSk0b_qcRdYAPD5HDwPpzXtbAJDdTfTrON5rTZuxIFmQyc9HKlYuaC_8q9U38qLRTGFvbQYqcslH5V-O/s320/no_asteroid.png)
...but there wasn't an asteroid in it. Stars and faint galaxies are visible down to below magnitude 14, but there is a complete lack of Asteroid. The SkyMap field for the same time as the exposure is how to the left.
I took 3 x 120 second exposures, which should have been able to pick up a magnitude 14 asteroid. I "blinked" the images so I could see if anything jumped about, but nothing did. Maybe I messed up the times, but even if I'd been out by an hour I should have caught at least two images of the asteroid in this field. [sighs]
Labels: asteroids, astrophotography