Contains:  Solar system body or event
Asteroid Gonnessia 1177 passes through the Pleiades, Jason Cropper

Asteroid Gonnessia 1177 passes through the Pleiades

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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While looking at some of the data I captured recently of M45/The Pleiades I noticed a moving 'star'.  After some research online and with CdC I learned it was asteroid Gonnessia 1177.  This animation represents 2 hours of subs.

It's a little hard to see at first, but if you divided the image into 4 quadrants, it would be located in the bottom right quadrant near the quadrant's top left.

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