[Chaos-l] Spotting Asteroid YU55

[Allen Davis]

I just plotted the path on Sky Safari......i found the asteroid with a
search and then centered.  Then I hit time forward.  It was really really
NEAT to see it track across the display, try it if you have Sky Safari Plus
or Pro.  

I updated my minor body data while ago also.  allen

-----Original Message-----
From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Nielsen
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 9:45 PM
To: Chaos-l at rtpnet.org
Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Spotting Asteroid YU55

Well, a few things are going to make it difficult:

1) Tomorrow night is the Carol Woods observing session ... not a dark site
2) The moon is pretty close to full (97% illuminated)
3) While S&T says it is mag 11, some say it is "coal black"
4) Various reports say the ephemera will change slightly as it passes

But the Clear Sky Clock is predicting good conditions, so we'll just have to
take a shot.  I'm planning on dragging The Mistress out tomorrow to the
meeting ...

Robert

Sent from my iPad

On Nov 7, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Tony Rice <rtphokie at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the closest approach of an asteroid since the 70's and there
> shouldn't be another like it for 20+ years.  Sky and Telescope has
> some good info on spotting it.  It's a mag 11.1 so it's reachable at a
> dark site.
> 
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/about/pressreleases/133357483.html
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