Astrophotography by Torsten Mueller


Asteroid 433 Eros

Asteroid
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Object Information

Description wikipedia: "Eros" ( minor planet designation: 433 Eros), provisional designation 1898 DQ, is a stony and elongated asteroid of the Amor group and the first discovered and second-largest near-Earth object with a mean-diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers. Visited by the NEAR Shoemaker space probe in 1998, it became the first asteroid ever studied from orbit. The eccentric asteroid was discovered by German astronomer Carl Gustav Witt at the Berlin Urania Observatory on 13 August 1898, and later named after Eros, a god from Greek mythology."
Type Asteroid
Brightness 11.3 mag (vis)
Apparent Size 16.8 km (Diameter)
Distance --- MLy

Exposure Information

Date 2019-04-05
Location GRT (Goldbach Remote Telescope)
Optics GSO 12" RC f/5.6 (TS CCDT47 Reducer)
Camera ZWO ASI1600MMPRO
Integration Luminance 13x60 sec. (1x1 binning)
(0.22 h total)
Image remarks very bad sky transparency