Mountain-sized asteroid BL86 (also known as 357439) came hurtling towards its near-miss with earth today, and I caught it on my camera. Here's the time-lapse video, both an edge to edge 16:9 crop at 200mm, then a second copy cropped to 1080p. Look in the center as it moves from lower right center to upper left center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQ6mEdoAkU&list=PL6012D9822C1BA1E7
Both were assembled from 119 separate images of the sky, taken with a full frame DSLR and 70-200 mm lens, on a star-tracking mount. The evening sky is becoming bright with the moonlight, so I lowered the they ISO sensitivity to 2000. I tried a second camera using an 85mm lens at f/2.2 without a tracking mount, but I probably won't get to that footage this week so see whether the asteroid shows up well..
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Cool!
What are the red laser looking things?
+Michael Moulds An airplane flew by.
Fascinating! Seems it can't get away from Earth fast enough! Thank you Jeff.
hey coool
hey guys another astroid is coming in september and its gonna it earth it was nice knowing you
you don't say which September! LOL
Emotive!
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Most of us sit here and read this info and find it impossible to comprehend such a thing could ever happen. I appreciate your wonderful photos and the "story" behind them. I feel privileged to have access to your posts.