It was only about a quarter of an arcsecond wide at close approach. That’s incredibly tiny. Considering that, the radar pictures we have of it are actually quite good. In fact, at that size you’re doing really good if you can even just resolve it as more than a point-like light source (in other words, star-like). My telescope’s theoretical limit of resolution is only half an arcsecond, but I did get a nice timelapse of the asteroid moving against the stars during the close approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Id2KvFUqo
Thats a big telescope!
Wow, great video. I’m also interested in astronomy, though at the moment I just have a lowly ETX-70. Thanks for sharing that...it gives one an extremely lonely feeling watching it.
Great vid ... last year while camping a Girlfriend and I saw what looked just like that ... we did the UFO, SR71 and Satellite debate and then we just chalked it up as a memorable experience... (now if I could just find her number)
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Thanks messierhunter.