I just hit a new rock: Philosophia. 54 miles in diameter, 150 million miles away right now. Apparent magnitude 12.7.
I have 3 exposures of 10 minutes each, taken with t27 . I zoomed way in on the center of the images, and did my slice-to-8-bit trick so that you are only seeing the 256 grayvalues that are just above the background mean.
It looks like I'm going to need much dimmer targets.
But! I may have hit the jackpot here.
What the heck are these things?
They look like rocks!
Did I get a couple faint ones by chance in the same field of view? It sure looks like it! Maybe I can identify these gadgets!
If so, I can find what their apparent magnitude was, and that will provide a very valuable data-point for seeing how dim we ought to be able to go.
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