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ZTF / SAMUEL OSCHIN TELESCOPE

9 August 2021

2 telescope photos taken over 36.7 minutes at Palomar Observatory.

Filters
g, 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: 7ab9968b38b0d1ed

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ZTF / PALOMAR OBSERVATORY2021-08-09
ZTF r-band exposure at 08:59:20 UTC on 2021-08-09; a field of stars around Beebe's predicted position.N ↑
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Exposure frame
08:59:20 UTC · r band
36.7 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 g, r filters, so stars may change brightness between frames. These images do not show Beebe’s surface.

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