← All observing nights

ZTF / SAMUEL OSCHIN TELESCOPE

16 September 2018

2 telescope photos taken over 60.9 minutes at Palomar Observatory.

Filters
g, r
Field width
173.9 arcseconds
Added to this site
6 September 2026
Visibility review
Unreviewed; marker is a prediction

The GIF contains telescope pixels without the position marker. Playback is accelerated, with equal time per exposure.

Processing & provenance

North up; east left. Each exposure is background-normalized and resampled to a common sky grid. Mixed filters can change star brightness.

Render revision: 7c7e9838b5e30cf6

Read the methods ↗
ZTF / PALOMAR OBSERVATORY2018-09-16
ZTF r-band exposure at 11:07:58 UTC on 2018-09-16; a field of stars around Beebe's predicted position.N ↑
E ←
60″
1 / 2
Exposure frame
11:07:58 UTC · r band
60.9 minutes of observations. Playback speeds up time.Circle = predicted position · visibility unreviewed
What am I looking at?

Each frame is a real telescope exposure of the same patch of sky. Stars stay approximately in place; an asteroid moves. The circle follows Beebe’s predicted location, not a measured detection. Images use g, r filters, so stars may change brightness between frames. These images do not show Beebe’s surface.

Open this source FITS image

THE INDIVIDUAL EXPOSURES

Take a closer look.