
04:07:24 UTC · i band
Source FITS ↗ZTF / SAMUEL OSCHIN TELESCOPE
2 telescope photos taken over 52.7 minutes at Palomar Observatory.
The GIF contains telescope pixels without the position marker. Playback is accelerated, with equal time per exposure.
North up; east left. Each exposure is background-normalized and resampled to a common sky grid. Mixed filters can change star brightness.
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N ↑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, i filters, so stars may change brightness between frames. These images do not show Beebe’s surface.
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04:07:24 UTC · i band
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05:00:09 UTC · g band
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