Images of asteroid 2002NY40

Equipment: Zeiss-600 with CCD SBIG ST-6

40 sec exposure at 22:40 UT

10 sec exposure at 22:43 UT

20 sec exposure at 23:11 UT

20 sec exposure at 23:15 UT

Images taken in Zvenigorod observatory by Alexey Dafintsev,
Evgeniy Evdakov, Anatoliy Kohanov and Stas Korotkiy
Date: 2002 Aug. 18th, 02:40-03:15 MSK (Aug. 17th, 22:40-23:15 UT)
Asteroid's distance from Earth: 0.006 AU
Angular velocity: 3.3"/sec
Telescope: Zeiss-600
Focal length: 7500 mm
CCD FOV: 4x3 arcmin

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