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M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia, Antonio.Spinoza
M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia
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M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia

M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia, Antonio.Spinoza
M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia
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M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia

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I was just trying to take an image of M44 since it was in a good position in the sky and I wanted to see what kind of star color would be brought out. It appears that asteroid 171 Ophelia was also in the frame. 171 Ophelia has a magnitude of about 12.15 according to Loweel Asteroid Service: http://asteroid.lowell.edu/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/171_Ophelia

The asteroid has been labeled in the lower left of the reoriented image (flipped horizontal relative to the original to match the ImageLinked view from TheSkyX.

The break in the path of the asteroid corresponds to when image acquisition was stopped temporarily to flip to the other side of the meridian, refocus and recalibrate the autoguider.

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  • M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia, Antonio.Spinoza
    Original
  • M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia, Antonio.Spinoza
    B
  • Final
    M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia, Antonio.Spinoza
    C

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M44 - Beehive Cluster + Asteroid 171 Ophelia, Antonio.Spinoza