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On the night of December 1, 2024, the asteroid Egeria crossed the skies of Perseus with a brightness of 10 mag and at a distance of about 210 million km from Earth. In the background stood the diffuse “Northern Trifid” nebula NGC 1579.

Egeria's walk was filmed from Castelnuovo Nigra (northern Piedmont - Italy) from a sequence of RGB images spaced approximately 20 minutes.

Long: 07 41 40 E Lat: 45 28 18 N

Camera: ASI 6200 MMPro

Telescope: GSO 10” Truss

Mount: Astro Physics 1100GTO

Filters: Astrodon Gen2 LRGB

RGB: 16x420 sec each

Luminance: 105x180sec

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