It took longer than planned but the links below should be working now. patrick On 20 Sep 2008, at 04:23, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
Oops! Apologies but he just told me not to release the images until he communicates with the IAU.
Hopefully by the time I get up this afternoon I'll be able to post them.
Night all,
patrick
On 20 Sep 2008, at 04:02, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
The principal investigator on the project I'm taking light curve data on asteroid Kleopatra for has some time on one of the Keck scopes and he just sent me some images he got of Kleopatra and another asteroid called Hermione.
They're not fully processed but he gave me permission to post them as is.
Looking at Kleopatra's image I can see why it changes magnitude by nearly a full magnitude. With its dog bone shape when it's seen end on there's very little surface to reflect light whereas once it turns sideways it brightens up considerably.
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/kleopatra.jpg
And note the image scale on this one. Just goes to show what one can do when imaging with 10 meters of aperture.
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/hermione.jpg
Suddenly the Big Scope at SPOC doesn't seem quite so big anymore... :)
Speaking of SPOC, remember there's a public star party there tonight.
Clear skies! (please)
patrick