Animation can be found here
https://vimeo.com/598429759On June 6, 2020 an image of this flyby was presented as a NASA APOD. That image was taken with a RASA 8 and an ASI 071 mcP.
That same night I had two other imaging setups running. A RedCat 51 for wide field and the RASA11 for closeup.
I felt the framing wasn't right, attempting to capture M81, M82 and comet PanSATTRS all in the same field, together using the 3/4 sensor of the ASI 294mcP for the closeup. So I never processed this data.
Until now.
In the spirit of deep sky imaging, where one might stack years of data to improve an image, so what if I'm a little late for this one. Astobin is a great place to archive our images. So place this in my folder for "taken on May 22, 2020; processed on September 5, 2021" now finalized.
Dan
(I'm still working on the stars for this scope camera setup)
Image data:
WCS transformation ....... Linear
Projection ............... Gnomonic
Projection origin ........ [2025.992682 1383.989744] px -> [RA: 9 56 51.219 Dec: +69 51 07.70]
Resolution ............... 1.546 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. -115.435 deg
Reference system ......... ICRS
Observation start time ... 2020-05-23 04:32:52 UTC
Focal distance ........... 617.77 mm
Pixel size ............... 4.63 um
Field of view ............ 1d 44' 23.9" x 1d 11' 19.0"
Image center ............. RA: 9 56 51.222 Dec: +69 51 07.70
Image bounds:
top-left .............. RA: 9 46 00.925 Dec: +70 21 44.19
top-right ............. RA: 9 55 03.050 Dec: +68 48 38.73
bottom-left ........... RA: 9 58 50.665 Dec: +70 53 32.11
bottom-right .......... RA: 10 07 09.554 Dec: +69 18 09.26
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