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Asteroid - Sarita 796, Andrea Bergamini

Asteroid - Sarita 796

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My stacked M45 data showed an artifact... a long stripe in multiple color/filters. Turns out, it was an asteroid.

An asteroid passed by during the night of Oct 14th. Using the NASA JPL object identification tool I was able to narrow down the possible asteroids. I then used Stellarium to confirm the one that matches the observation.

It was too bright to even think it would be a new discovery… this one has been known for over 100 years.

This is about 5 hours of LRGB data. Kept monochrome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/796_Sarita?fbclid=IwAR0aLgFwxn0R4Y2BfPG2I2O4-LiolGZOtAZlXiG4mlUYQ6MpD-Ekeao_fCw

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