I didn’t manage to observe the auroral storm although it showed up well on my magnetometer. Here is a fun rendition of the geomagnetic activity in sound.
Category: astronomy
2023 CX1
The light in the image below is entirely due to the terminal burst from this fireball.
The ‘Apollo’ NEO 2023 CX1 (Sar 2667) was predicted to enter the Earth’s atmosphere just off the coast of Normandy during the early hours of Monday 13th February 2023. Here are videos from two of my cameras that recorded the event.
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_CX1
ESA Near-Earth Objects Coordination Centre: https://neo.ssa.esa.int/-/new-imminent-impactor-found-by-european-astronomer
Eta Carina: Telescope Live
RGB image obtained with Telescope Live Australia 2 telescope. 3 x 4 min exposures processed in Astro Pixel Processor.
Minor Planet 190208 (2006 AQ) & Dwarf Planet 1 Ceres
An image of minor planet 190208 (2006 AQ) taken on 2018 February 2 just after midnight. Celestron C11 + SBIG STF-8300M (2 x 2 binning). Stack of 3 integrations each 2 minutes long and aligned on the asteroid (hence elongated stars). FOV: 22 x 16 arcminutes.
Data from JPL Horizons:
RA: 09 35 17.42 (measured with AstroArt: 09 35 17.46)
Dec: +13 13 53.1 (measured with AstroArt: +13 13 53.4)
Magnitude: 17.9
Distance: 0.46 AU
Constellation: Leo
For comparison, two stacked images of Ceres taken with the same equipment as above (same FOV). 2 hours 7 minutes between images.
3200 Phaethon
Phaethon is the parent body of the Geminid meteors. This image was obtained shortly after midnight on 2017 December 12. It is a composite of 60 x 20 second images through a Celestron c11. The FOV is 22 x 16 arcminutes. North up, Phaethon was moving east to west (left-to-right).
