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| Radar Image of Asteroid 2005 YU55- courtesy of NASA |
Having returned from a brilliant holiday and clear skies in Canada and America, I hurried to set up my telescope in order to photograph the asteroid 2005 YU55 as it sped between the Moon and Earth at 29,000 mph. At its nearest the asteroid passed only 239,000 miles from the Earth. No other asteroid is known to come closer until the year 2028 ( By which time I will be eighty years old if still alive and snapping!). You can imagine how miffed I was when the clouds blew in off the sea and ruined any attempt to view, let alone image, the asteroid.
To cheer myself up I used Deep-sky Stacker, Photoshop and Neat Image, to enhance photographs of the open star cluster Messier 39 in the constellation Cygnus which I took in September from garden with my Canon EOS 400D camera.
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| Messier 39 |
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