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Famous Asteroid 433 Eros

January 14, 2019

Asteroid 433 Eros is famous because in 1998 Space Probe NEAR Shoemaker visited it and gave us stunning views of this asteroid.

The above image is a stack of 263 images; each image was of 5 seconds exposure in luminance filter. Telescope was being tracked but not guided. The Asteroid was moving from right side of this image to left. The time of image acquisition was 30 minutes.

Top right has a beautiful close visual binary star which are almost 9 arcseconds distant from each other and both have about 7 magnitude brightness. Hipparchus Star Catalogue has it with an entry as HIP 21108.

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