Grand Slam!

Dear Dave,

This is awesome and I am truly delighted for you! Just goes to show you what dedication and oragnization can do!

I have a little question for you when you have a few minutes of free time. I imaged M33 about 18 months ago and I caught a very slow moving and somewhat dim object through my field of view. Please click here and look at the bottom left: www.perseus.gr/Astro-DSO-NGC-0598.htm ... if you click on the image itself, you will get a larger version.

Any thoughts as to which asteroid/NEO it may be?

Thanks ... and congrats once again!

Wow. This is crazy!? - amazing!
Keep it up lads!
Well done AGAIN Dave!

ayiomamitis wrote:

I have a little question for you when you have a few minutes of free time. I imaged M33 about 18 months ago and I caught a very slow moving and somewhat dim object through my field of view. Please click here and look at the bottom left: www.perseus.gr/Astro-DSO-NGC-0598.htm ... if you click on the image itself, you will get a larger version.

Any thoughts as to which asteroid/NEO it may be?

Thanks ... and congrats once again!

Thanks Anthony. I do have the answer to your question. You did in fact capture two asteroids on that image.

The first (and the one you refer to) is (5183)Robyn. The second one is much fainter at magnitude +18.4 and is (44277)1998 QY72.

I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of doodling the locations and names of these asteroids on this image. The copy is here;

www.webtreatz.com/images/aa_m33.jpg

Congrats on capturing these two asteroids!!

Dave

Dave,

Congratulations again!

Keep up the good work

Eamonn A

www.kingslandobservatory.com

Thanks for the kind comments guys.

Of course this is very exciting, more than I could have ever hoped.

This particular asteroid was discovered very close to Denebola in Leo. Interesting because LINEAR discovered a NEO very close by right in between my first and second night observations. I was worried that they might pip me to the post. Happily they did not.

Almost as exciting (at least for me) was a collaboration to confirm the existance of another NEO last night. DaveMc and myself captured a magnitude +19 NEO (2009 FU23) which had been discovered only hours earlier by the Catalina Sky Survey. Check the Announcment

I was also involved in another NEO confirmation last night. 2009 FT23 has a MOID of only 0.01 AU ( See the announcement

Delighted as I am to have discovered 2009 FV19, I find these NEO successes also very exciting because they are very relevant to all of us. Every NEO that's discovered and charted is one less we have to worry about!

As I said to Dave McD STOP MAKING THIS LOOK EASY YOU GUYS .

Well done both of ye. Looks like double figures are on the way before too long.