Images of Near-Earth Asteroid 2006 RZ

Equipment: 16" Meade LX200GPS with CCD SBIG ST-2000

Set 1

Sum of 12 x 15 sec exposures

Set 2

Interval between exposures: 20 sec

Combined first set of images - full frame

The bright star at left is HIP 92925 (V=7.5, B=8.9)

Image showing two artificial satellites

(See detailed single image and animation below)

Single frame with 2006 RZ and two satellites

Exposure time: 19:14:51-19:15:06 UT

Animations

Twelve frames animated from the first series (preview + 1.3 MB clip)

Four-frame animation from the second series (252 kB)

Image details and credits

Images taken by Denis Denisenko at the First Moscow Gymnasium Observatory
(Lipki, near Zvenigorod, Moscow region)
Date: 2006 Oct. 5th, 19:02-19:16 UT
Constellation: Draco
Asteroid's distance from Earth: 0.016 AU
Angular velocity: 1"/sec
Telescope: 16" Meade LX200GPS + F/6.3 focal reducer
Focal length: 2560 mm
CCD FOV: 15x11 arcmin
Image processing: Dark subtract, align and combine
No flat field correction made

Denis Denisenko (denis@hea.iki.rssi.ru)

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