 May 26, 2001 This 1.0
MB mpeg movie of asteroid 1999 KW4 consists of forty 60-sec
exposures spanning May 26, 06:47:26 UT to May 26, 07:32:45 UT.
Tim Puckett used a tracking 60 cm reflector to capture the images
less than eight hours after the asteroid's closest approach to
Earth. The Puckett Observatory
in located in north Georgia, USA. [1.0
MB mpg; 0.3
MB mpg] |
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May 26, 2001 Glenn
Graham captured this 0.75
MB Quicktime movie of asteroid 1999 KW4 from his backyard
in Beaverton, Oregon. He used a 12 inch Meade LX200 telescope
equipped with an Optec f/3.3 focal reducer and an SBIG STV CCD
video monitor, all under control of TheSky software. The asteroid
was low in the sky shining through the bright lights of Portland.
[0.75 MB mov] |
NEW May 29, 2001 This
2 MB mpeg movie
shows 1999 KW4 racing across the sky at 8.7 degrees per day as
it receded from Earth on May 29, 2001. The images, spanning a
3.8 hour period, were captured by John Rogers using a 0.30 meter
Schmidt-Cassegrain instrument at the Camarillo Observatory, 55
miles north of Los Angeles. Says Rogers, a veteran asteroid observer,
"At
12th magnitude, it was one of the brightest ones that I have
been able to capture." [2
MB mpg; 4.5 MB
mpg] |