Gallery: Vesta
Sketch made by Michael Rosolina
Fig 1:
| Image Parameter | Details |
| Image Date (UTC): | 7 July
8 July 14 July 15 July 22 July |
| Image Time (UTC): | 0300
0250 0420 0250 0210 |
| Exposure: | visual |
| Filter: | |
| Field of View: | 4.4° |
| Observing Site: | Friars Hill, WV
38.02N 80.27W Elevation: 823m |
| Observing Equipment: | HD 15x70 APM Binoculars on an HD Paragon Plus mount |
| Digital Processing: | |
| Comments: | Sketch was done in the field and shows Vesta ending its apparent retrograde motion to the west and resuming direct motion. Transparency was often very poor during the observations making it difficult to estimate magnitude. Vesta appeared to be about magnitude 6.0 July 7th-8th, about magnitude 6.5-6.8 July 14th-15th, and magnitude 6.8-7.0 July 22nd. I used the defocused star method to estimate magnitude. |
Table 1: Data about image.