Is Asteroid 2018 VP1 Actually 6 Miles Wide?

It will impact length wise against the atmosphere and then shatter apart into a bunch of smaller pieces upon entry.

Wrong. Suck on it.
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Did you capture these images?
The Jupiter image is crazy.
I like photography and was wondering What would the f stop on that lens equate too in the std camera lens world.

Did you capture these images?
The Jupiter image is crazy.
I like photography and was wondering What would the f stop on that lens equate too in the std camera lens world.

Yup, I captured them. The focal length for the Jupiter image was 4000mm with an f ratio of f/20.

wow 4K thats a big lens, f/20 not so good for birds

That was with a 2x barlow. The natural focal length is 2000mm. It's a wee bit big to haul around for birding.
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So the scope is actually an f/10 2000mm

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That dot...

I take there are only certain times of the year you can capture Jupiter like that due to light refraction and position. Whens a good time to try? I am in Somerset, UK

Could be an asteroid heading straight for the lens the flashing is it rotating and catching light.

I seems big that was all how it arrives and vanishes seemed odd.

Post to GLP, of course. While getting wasted. Not so much into the raping and murdering part, but I'd have my AR-15 strapped to me in case someone else tries either of those.

I seems big that was all how it arrives and vanishes seemed odd.

No, As mentioned in the video it's not possible to rule out the possibility of impact. It is possible to set upper limits on the size that are way smaller than 6 miles. Those are upper limits, that's it, it doesn't mean that it's actually larger than originally thought. In reality though, a size of only a few feet wide means that it's not going to be practical to detect it prior to the potential impact.

That's a cosmic ray strike. They're quite common, it's radiation from space colliding with the CCD and creating a charge across one or more pixels in a single frame. Like hot pixels they do not form point spread functions the way stars and other point-like sources of light do in the telescope.

Thank you..

So just too the right of that the one that creates 1cm line is that the same ?

so.... if we built this large wooden Badger...

Why do your pics look like a cheap cgi?


Not trolling just curious

Neil Degrasse Tyson says it is 'refrigerator sized'. That would be one HELL of a big fridge!!!


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Astromut please keep us up to date, particularly as more information comes in on it's size.

Even a "miss" at the distance they are talking about with a large size rock of the upper size range they are talking about is one scarey event.