The following photographs are of the Asteroid Vesta. T his photo is a composit of two photos, taken on successive nights. The negatives were sandwiched together to show the changing position of Vesta. The two bright stars in the center are Vesta and it shows a motion of about 10 arc minutes in 24 hrs.
North is up .
The first picture was taken during hazy conditions so one image is a bit brighter than the other. I also had a meridian crossing on the second which put a small glitch on the second image. It should also be noted that I have no simple way of registering two negatives very precisely so there is some image mush resulting from mis-registration. The objective of the project was to gain experience in identifying objects that can only be identified by changes in position relative to background stars. Vesta is fairly easy as it is brighter than the background stars and there is little doubt about its identification without photography.