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ZTF / SAMUEL OSCHIN TELESCOPE

20 December 2019

3 telescope photos taken over 20.7 minutes at Palomar Observatory.

Filters
r
Field width
150 arcseconds
Added to this site
6 September 2026
Visibility review
Unreviewed; marker is a prediction
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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: 996202f48c07f3b6

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ZTF / PALOMAR OBSERVATORY2019-12-20
ZTF r-band exposure at 13:23:54 UTC on 2019-12-20; a field of stars around Beebe's predicted position.N ↑
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Exposure frame
13:23:54 UTC · r band
20.7 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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