2010 LX15 moves, but can we see it?

Unfortunately we can't control the weather, and although it wasn't completely clouded over, there was some intermittant cloud cover, and it affected many of the images. Compared to yesterday's images, these were very poor, and many of the dimmer stars cannot be seen! (Perhaps, using a program to enhance the images, we may be able to pick out a little more detail. If we succeed, we'll put these on here later for comparison... )


One of the images we took replicated yesterday's co-ordinates, so we could directly compare the images:

Sky Object Name: 2010 LX15
Taken By: Uplands Community College
When taken: Jun 16, 2010 13:18:14 UTC
RA: 16h48'41"
DEC: -22°44'36"
Filter: Solar
Exposure time: 120 secs.
Instrument: EM03

The next three are todays solar filter images of the same asteroid imaged yesterday:

Sky Object Name: 2010 LX15
Taken By: Uplands Community College
When taken: Jun 16, 2010 13:07:00 UTC
RA: 16h47'51"
DEC: -22°44'53"
Filter: Solar
Exposure time: 120 secs.
Instrument: EM03

Sky Object Name: 2010 LX15
Taken By: Uplands Community College
When taken: Jun 16, 2010 13:12:05 UTC
RA: 16h47'51"
DEC: -22°44'53"
Filter: Solar
Exposure time: 120 secs.
Instrument: EM03

Sky Object Name: 2010 LX15
Taken By: Uplands Community College
When taken: Jun 16, 2010 13:28:16 UTC
RA: 16h47'51"
DEC: -22°44'53"
Filter: Solar
Exposure time: 120 secs.
Instrument: EM03

We also took three experimental seperate colour images, taken about 3 mins apart, with 30second exposure, to investigate an idea by Yr 9 student, Jordan Harris, who hypothesised that if we took with the three colour filters, with long enough exposure we should be able to see the asteroid turn from red to green to blue.

Unfortunately, these pictures were some of the worst affected by the weather, and weren't very clear. Jordan has some ideas how they might still be used, but they aren't brilliantly effective. However, at the end we had a little time over, so we tried a 60 second RGB exposure (which means 60 seconds with each of the red, green and blue filters) and that worked out a bit better...

Red Sky Object Name: 2010 LX15
Taken By: Uplands Community College
When taken: Jun 16, 2010 13:03:45 UTC
RA: 16h47'51"
DEC: -22°44'53"
Filter: R
Exposure time: 30 secs.
Instrument: EM03

Green Sky Object Name: 2010 LX15
Taken By: Uplands Community College
When taken: Jun 16, 2010 13:08:46 UTC
RA: 16h47'51"
DEC: -22°44'53"
Filter: Green
Exposure time: 30 secs.
Instrument: EM03

Blue Sky Object Name: 2010 LX15
Taken By: Uplands Community College
When taken: Jun 16, 2010 13:13:47 UTC
RA: 16h47'51"
DEC: -22°44'53"
Filter: Blue
Exposure time: 30 secs.
Instrument: EM03

Red/Green/Blue (RGB) filter at 60 seconds each. This single image is composed of three seperate colour images, which can be downloaded and analysed in different ways. Jordan has created a method for doing that, which he will hopefully share with us here!:

Sky Object Name: 2010 LX15
Taken By: Uplands Community College
When taken: Jun 16, 2010 13:25:01 UTC
RA: 16h47'51"
DEC: -22°44'53"
Filter: RGB
Exposure time: 60 secs.
Instrument: EM03