A large main belt asteroid, discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1879. Thought I’d try the same technique as for an eclipsing binary. One extra step in AstroImageJ to track the asteroid between frames. Didn’t get enough data to determine a period and comparison stars were impossible to find in this particular field so relative flux only.

Object ID(201) Penelope
Details2022-02-10
21:39:08 – 00:59:05 UT
Telescope250mm f4.8 Newtonian
CameraAtik 460EX @-10°C
V filter
Exposure(s)95 x 120s
darks, flats, bias
CaptureNINA
ProcessingAstroImageJ