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Asteroid 2005 YU55 from Cerritos College campus TheStarWatchingRock 318 views This video consists of the images of YU55 that I was able to shoot as it passed near the Earth on the evening of 2011 Nov 8. Each frame is a ten second exposure. My student...
Tracking and Photographing 2005 YU55 TheStarWatchingRock 826 views Here is where to go to compile the information you will need if you want to view or photograph 2005 YU55 shortly after perigee on 2011 Nov 8. An ephemeris and a good star c...
Asteroid 2005 YU55 - How close will it get? TheStarWatchingRock 1,709 views Scale models are used to show the sizes of the Earth and Moon and their separation in space. The closest approach of asteroid 2005 YU55 -- which occurs on 2011 Nov 8 in the...
Southern Hemisphere Sky timelapse TheStarWatchingRock 324 views Photos shot in Maun, Botswana. The two bright stars at the top toward the left are Alpha (left) and Beta (right) Centauri. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system that is th...
Sunrise on the moon, 2011 April 12 0500 UT TheStarWatchingRock 513 views This has a time lapse of frames that were shot every 3 minutes of the craters Pitatus and Gauricus. The craters were partially lit, and I wanted to see if I could watch th...
Saturn rotating, 1 April 2011 TheStarWatchingRock 3,086 views This video is reduced from 60+ GB of video shot from 0540 to 0730 UT on the night of 1 April 2011, a few days before Saturn reaches opposition for 2011. Each frame is redu...
Saturn near opposition, 2011 TheStarWatchingRock 1,774 views This is video that I took of Saturn on the night of 28 February 2011. Saturn will be at opposition in 2011 on April 3rd. The video was shot through a webcam in a 3x Barlo...
Jupiter, Ganymede, and Europa; 2010-10-31 0404 to 0525 UT TheStarWatchingRock 1,609 views This is reduced from 30+ GB of footage of Jupiter from that night. Each frame is processed from a 2700 frame AVI of Jupiter using Registax. I had excellent seeing conditi...
Update on research and what planets are visible TheStarWatchingRock 329 views I finished my catalog of galaxy clusters! How can you tell the difference between a planet and a star? You can use star charts available from http://www.skyviewcafe.com...
jupiter -- blurry and disappearing TheStarWatchingRock 607 views as i did earlier with saturn, i was using my 10-inch newtonian reflector that has no tracking to get video and pics of jupiter. instead of just expecting you to sit throug...

About Keep an eye on the Universe from here

This is a collection of astronomy related videos I have made. I hope that you will be able to find your way around the sky, or get a better understanding of the cosmos from them. Please let me know of any topics you would like to see addressed.

I have had a great love for the subject of astronomy for nearly all my life. I hope I can share some of this enthusiasm with you.

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