Friday, February 15, 2013

2012 DA14


I took this photo of the Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 using remotely-controlled telescope in Australia as it was rapidly approaching our planet . On this photo the asteroid is moving at 2200 arc-sec per minute through the southern constellation of Vela ("Sails"). The animation consists of three 1-minute frames taken through a 100 mm astrograph.