Nearly one year ago I was imaging NGC 772 under poor conditions. High clouds all the time. My guider and my autofocusser had a hard time that night and the result was correspondingly poor. You can see that by watching the pulsating stars
But as I am always checking my images for hiddem gems like asteroids (greets to
@sky-watcher (johny) who's doing the same
), I found one of them again.
It's Pickeringia No.784 with mag 14.5 slowly finds it way from midnight to dawn.
If you are interested in such research I recomment the software ASTAP for it. Most of you guys know it for plate solving but this wonderfull piece of work can do many more including annotations, photometry...and many more.
Han, the developer, is very helpfull if you face challanges btw
You can find it free here:
http://www.hnsky.org/astap.htmRevision B is the result of the solving and annotation in ASTAP.
Hope you like it!
CS
Mike
P.S.: The gif is made out of 134 cropped single subs from 23:30h to 04:25h and unfortunately I had to compress it strong which makes it even more noisy
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