Tantalus, my First Rock

My first rock, 1.5 miles across, 85 million miles away, images from the iTelescope T24 in Auberry, California about 2 hours ago.

The image is processed down to 8 bit gray with my own software -- in the original you cannot see the streak.

These images are zoomed way in.  They are both about 250x250, while the originals are 3056x3056.


At 0200 Auberry time, 0500 Michigan time, 0900 GMT -- a ten minute exposure:

And at 0211 Auberry time, 0511 Michigan time, 0911 GMT:

Si muove!


Oh, we are going to have a lot of fun with these two images.

By the way, here is what the images looked like before being 8-bitified so you could see faint gray values better.  You can see the brightest few stars, and that's about it.

And, say hello to my little friend, who took the picture for me, made by PlaneWave Instruments, owned, adapted for the internet, and very well managed by iTelescope.net, the lovely and talented T24, of Auberry, California: