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Gallery: Vesta

Image taken by Milton "Chip" Gentry

Chip's animation of Vesta
Fig 1:
 

Image Parameter Details
Image Date (UTC): 2007-06-10
Image Time (UTC): ~ 04:12 - 05:00
Exposure: Frames 1-15 are 30 second exposures beginning at 04:12:01 UT and ending 04:19:28 UT. Frames 16-75 are 15 second exposures beginning at 04:42:47 UT and ending 05:00:00 UT.
Filter: none
Field of View: ~ 24X16
Observing Site: Austin, TX
lat 30° 24.754' N, long 97° 44.160' W, elev 255m
Observing Equipment: Celestron C-8 focal reduced to f/5
SBIG ST-402 cooled to 0C.
Digital Processing: Frames were calibrated with flat, dark, and bias frames. Blooming removed manually. All frames combined into a single animated gif image.
Comments:

Table 1: Data about image.
 

Updated: 30-Jul-2013