2012DA14 high resolution

This is a single 15 second exposure of asteroid 2012DA14, taken at 20:49:24 UTC. North is up and the asteroid was moving from south (bottom) towards north (top).

The instrument used was the University of Athens Observatory 0.40m f/8 Cassegrain reflector with a SBIG ST-10XME CCD camera and a f/6.3 focal reducer, resulting in a 25x17 arcminutes field of view.

The image is centered at equatorial coordinates: RA: 12h 25m 53s, DEC: +31d 13m 06s