The purpose was to photograph in color the easily distinguishable rod lens gala that was photographed in black and white less than a year earlier , and we can be satisfied with the end result. Even the slightly irregular shape of the object stood out nicely.

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(7763) Crabeels (1990 UT5,1994 RE1) A mid-main belt asteroid imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. When we photographed comet C/2021 Y1 (ATLAS), this was included in the pictures. The asteroid was discovered by Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the ESO La Silla Observatory (809 European Southern Observatory, La Silla) on 16 October 1990. Elst has found a total of 3868 asteroids and comet/asteroid 7968 Elst-Pizarro. Source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Walter_Elst . The asteroid got its name from the Dutch, Antwerp organist Henri Crabeels (b. 1904). The size...

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(5951) Alicemonet (1973 SJ5,1983 XE1,1986 TZ1) A main belt inner rim asteroid imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. When we photographed comet C/2021 Y1 (ATLAS), this was included in the pictures. The Flora family asteroid was discovered by the American astronomer Edward LG "Ted" Bowell (b.1943) at the Anderson Mesa station of the Lowel observatory (699) on October 7, 1986. The asteroid is named after the American astronomer Alice K. (Babcock) Monet (b.1954). He was an astronomer at the Flagstaff Station of the US Naval Observatory and past chairman of the Dynamical Astronomy ...

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Comet C/2021 Y1 (ATLAS) in a nearly parabolic orbit was imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. The comet was discovered by the ATLAS-MLO observatory (T08 – ATLAS-MLO) of the Asteroid Terrestrial- Impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS) search program, Mauna Loa with a 50cm telescope on June 26, 2021. The comet's perihelion is April 30, 2023. When photographing the comet, it was 1.8189au away, at its closest was 1.688au on December 12, 2022. The comet will be at its brightest from November 2022 to June 2023, estimated at 12.5-14 mag. After the turn of the year, the comet will move...

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(177614) 2004 HK33 (2004 HK33) The Apollo NEO/PHA asteroid imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. The asteroid was discovered by the Linear Socorro Discovery Program (704 – Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico) on April 21, 2004. The entire estimate for the asteroid is 1.1km. At the time of imaging, the asteroid was at a distance of 0.3466au and at its closest on October 8, 2022 at 0.10255au. 1Fig. first image of the series L60s measured, 2022-11-18T 21:07:23UT 2459902.38012JDUT 02h16m36.58s -04d16'13.9" 16.976mag Std Dev 109.610 SNR21.774 FWHM3.518" ,JPL Horizon 21:07:26m -0...

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(5001) EMP (1952 RF,1977 EN4,1982 KQ3,1987 SB1) main belt mid-region asteroid imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. While photographing the Apollo asteroid (177614) 2004 HK33, this came into the same picture. The asteroid was discovered by American astronomer Edward LG "Ted" Bowell (b.1943) at Anderson Mesa Station (699) of the Lowel Observatory on September 19, 1987. The asteroid got its name from the Russian ephemeris of Minor Planets book, "Ehfemeridy Malykh Planet" (EMP). The asteroid has a size of 9.72 km and a rotation speed of 26.3919 h/r. When photographing, the astero...

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(313607) 2003 QL30 (2003 QL30) The Mars-Crossing asteroid was imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. The asteroid was discovered by Australian amateur astronomer John Broughton (b.1952), at the Reedy Creek Observatory (428 – Reedy Creek) on August 24, 2004. John Broughton is one of the amateurs who discovered the most asteroids in the world. He has also developed telescopes suitable for search and the search methods that support them. He has found a total of 1180 asteroids and comets P/2005 T5 (Broughton), C/2006 OF2 (Broughton). Source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

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(306399) 1996 AX1 (1996 AX1,1999 TV10) A Mars-Crossing asteroid imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. The asteroid was discovered by the observatory of the village (municipality) of Farra d'Isonzo (595 – Farra d'Isonzo) on the Italian-Slovenian border on January 14, 1996. Source Wikipedia #Observatory ">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farra_d'Isonzo #Observatory . The observation center CCAF is located in Colombara on the road connecting Farra d'Isonzo and the village of Villanova, 10 km from Gorizia. Source https: //www.ccaf.it/ . The observation center is in ma...

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(85713) 1998 SS49 (1998 SS49) The Apollo NEO/PHA asteroid was imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. The asteroid was discovered by the Linear Socorro Discovery Program (704 – Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico) on September 29, 1998. The asteroid has a length of 3.48 km and a rotation speed of 5.37 h/r. This Apollo is also a Mars-Earth-Venus Crosseri. When photographed, the asteroid was at a distance of 0.1455au and at its closest on November 21, 2022 at 0.14137au. 1Fig. first image of the series L15s measured, 2022-11-18T 20:26:42UT 2459902.35187JDUT 09h31m16.15s +46d45'4...

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I had photographed this spiral galaxy seen from the side earlier this autumn in black and white, and now it was the turn of a color image. Of course, there are many more spectacular objects in the Giraffe constellation.

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(422787) 2001 WS1 (2001 WS1) The Apollo NEO/PHA asteroid was imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. The asteroid was discovered by the Linear Socorro Discovery Program (704 – Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico) on November 17, 2001. The entire estimate for the asteroid is 1.6km. The asteroid is one of the Earth-threatening asteroids (PHA), but not within the next 200 years. The destruction forecast for this over 1km site is at least continent-wide destruction! At the time of imaging, the asteroid was at a distance of 0.2492au and at its closest on October 17, 2022 at 0.11095au....

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2019 OR1 (2019 OR1) Aten NEO/PHA asteroid imaged on the first night of the 2022 November talcos. The asteroid was discovered by the PANSTARRS discovery program at the Pan-STARRS 1 Haleakala Observatory (F51 – Pan-STARRS 1, Haleakala) on July 27, 2019. Estimated size 0.164 - 0.366km. When photographed, the asteroid was at a distance of 0.04959au and at its closest on November 21, 2022 at 0.04625au. This asteroid has unusually bad predictions in our measurements, the dec deviates by more than 2" ! The planets Earth and Venus apparently interfere with the orbit . 1Fig. first image of the series L...

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I had to try photographing this low-lying globular mass at the beginning of the November talks on Tähtikallio. The object came into view dim and scattered and could almost be mistaken for a dense open cluster of stars.

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(3431) Nakano (1951 PL,1962 PD,1962 QM,1970 AO,1973 SD2,1984 QC) Outer main belt asteroid imaged on first night of 2022 November talcos. The asteroid was discovered by the Japanese astronomer Tsutomu Seki (b.1930), at the Geisei Observatory (372 – Geisei) on August 24, 1984. Tsutomu Seki has discovered a total of 225 asteroids and comets C/1967 C1 (Seki 2) , C/1962 C1 (Seki–Lines) , C/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki 1) , C/1961 T1 (Seki 1) , C/ 1967 Y1 (Ikeya–Seki 2) , C/1970 U1 (Suzuki–Sato–Seki) . Source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Seki and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_come...

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Our intention had been to photograph the supernova 2022wsp, but despite persistent efforts, it could not be found in the picture. So we decided to publish the image as just a galaxy image. This is not a boring looking galaxy.

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An interesting play, unfortunately very cloudy after the beginning. recorded with an all-sky camera. Before 20:00 we (Veikko, Juha and Tuija) went to visually follow the repos in the north. Toni Veikkolainen filmed and reported himself. Kari was the first to notice the flares from the all-sky camera while photographing asteroids. At 18:56 The first storms to the north-east into the dim sky. 18:56-19:11: First wave. A greenish arch rises from the northeast, a reddish repo to the front at 7:04 p.m., also progresses to the southwest. At 19:08 the green passes the red, the red sharpens and branche...

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Again, the shooting target was the planetary nebula. The object was small and ring-shaped. The central star was recognizable.

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There was no observation of this planetary nebula in Taivaanvahti yet. The object seemed almost box-like and a little darker in the middle. The sky was very light at the time of observation.

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Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF) was imaged on the first night of the 2022 August talcos. A comet on a hyperbolic orbit was discovered by the Palomar Mountain ZTF variable object search program (I41 Palomar Mountain ZTF) on November 2, 2020. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a wide-field search program for supernovae and other rapidly changing objects based on the Samuel Oschin telescope, a 48" Schmidt telescope and a wide-field camera. The perihelion comet arrives on 2023-05-08 2.235au from the sun. When photographing the comet, it was 4.4146au away in Ursa Major, it will be closest to 1.855au on S...

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(215188) 2000 NM (2000 NM) Apollo NEO +1km asteroid photographed on the first night of the August talcos. The asteroid was discovered by American amateur astronomer Leonard L. Amburgey Scott Observatory (823 – Fitchburg) on July 2, 2000. School teacher Leonard Amburgey has found a total of 2 asteroids in his backyard observatory in the town of Fitchburg in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts. Source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_L._Amburgey . The entire estimate for the asteroid is 2.9 km and the rotation speed is 9.24 km. Spectral class Spec_B=>Sr . When photographed, t...

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