Hi John, You are right. How unlucky can I be. I'll have to try again sometime.
--Bob John Mahony wrote: >It looks like you got it, but the situation is not as simple as it looks. At >the time of your picture, 2003 EL61 (mag 17.5) was almost exactly at the >location of a slightly brighter mag 17.1 star- the separation is only about 4". > But the time of your CdC screen capture is about 1 hour later, by which time >2003 EL61 was so close to the star that the asteroid symbol in CdC covers the >star. >You might also need to use the "show more stars" icon to show the fainter >stars. > >Look closely at the image and you'll see two objects at the location indicated >by CdC. The slightly brighter object on the left is the star. 2003 EL61 is >fainter, a few pixels to the right and slightly up. > >If you "show more stars" in CdC, you'll also notice a mag 17.7 star barely >showing in your image about 38" north and slightly east (left) of 2003 EL61 and >the first star. > >-John > > > > >--- Robert Vanderbei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>My understanding is that one of the 3 new planets announced a week or >>two ago is designated >>2003EL61. I got ephemeris info from the Cartes-du-Ciel user's group. >>Last night I imaged the >>correct patch of sky. From the ephemeris file, the object is listed as >>mag 17.5. >>If that is correct, then I think I successfully imaged it (just barely). >> >>The image and the corresponding sky chart are posted here: >> >>http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/images/NJP/2003EL61.html >> >>It was rather low in the early evening and so there was lots of NJ sky >>glow---not a very pretty >>image. Nonetheless, it seems that I got it. >> >>And, not to waste the first clear evening in a long time, I grabbed a >>snapshot of M92 too: >> >>http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/images/NJP/m92.html >> >>-- Bob >>Robert J. Vanderbei >>http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb >> >> >> >> >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >____________________________________________________ >Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- Robert J. Vanderbei http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/1.XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
