11:32:38 UTC · r band
Source FITS ↗ZTF / SAMUEL OSCHIN TELESCOPE
9 December 2023
1 telescope photos taken over 55 minutes at Palomar Observatory.
- Filters
- g, r
- Field width
- 176.6 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: a05e25cccfe99b1b
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11:32:38 UTC · r band
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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