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ZTF / SAMUEL OSCHIN TELESCOPE

3 December 2018

2 telescope photos taken over 96.1 minutes at Palomar Observatory.

Filters
r
Field width
150 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: d1f6c1fbc5502214

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ZTF / PALOMAR OBSERVATORY2018-12-03
ZTF r-band exposure at 10:54:22 UTC on 2018-12-03; a field of stars around Beebe's predicted position.N ↑
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Exposure frame
10:54:22 UTC · r band
96.1 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 r filters, so stars may change brightness between frames. These images do not show Beebe’s surface.

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