My last target for January was asteroid (2612) Kathryn. I captured her on January 28th. On this night, (2612) Kathryn was moving through the constellation Gemini at 0.71 arcseconds/minute.
(2612) Kathryn is a Main Belt asteroid that orbits the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. (2612) Kathryn is 25 kilometers (16 miles) in diameter and at the time of this session was 221 million kilometers (138 million miles) from Earth.
Image Details
January 28, 2023 03:25:34-04:24:19
Seeing: Fair Transparency: Good
65-minute time-lapse animation
Image Scale: Original 1.02 arcsec/pixel; this cropped-resized image 3.26 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: North up. East Left. Up is 1.7 degrees E of N.
Field of View: 30.5 x 17.3 arcmin
Image Center: 07h 24m 14.233s +12° 55′ 31.150″
Capture Details: 11 image animation. Each image 360 seconds (stack of 4 at 90 seconds); Gain 200.
Capture: SharpCap Pro
Guiding : PhD2
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, GIMP
Telescope: Celestron C8 (203 mm SCT f/10) operating at f/5.8 (using Celestron f/6.3 FR/FF + 128.5 mm spacers)
Camera : ZWO ASI 482MC
Mount: Celestron CGEM