Just caught myself asteroid (433) Eros - with a simple camera on a tripod!!! It's the streak on the far right; the 3 bright stars are 7.1, 7.5 and 8.1 mag, the 2 faint ones in the lower left 9.3 and 9.5 mag. 4 seconds at f/4.4 and ISO 1600 with a 35-mm eq. fl. of 460 mm (Panasonic DMC-FZ48). So http://transitofvenus.nl/wp/getting-involved/eros-and-the-solar-parallax in within reach!

Just caught myself asteroid (433) Eros - with a simple camera on a tripod!!! It's the streak on the far right; the 3 bright stars are 7.1, 7.5 and 8.1 mag, the 2 faint ones in the lower left 9.3 and 9.5 mag. 4 seconds at f/4.4 and ISO 1600 with a 35-mm eq. fl. of 460 mm (Panasonic DMC-FZ48). So http://transitofvenus.nl/wp/getting-involved/eros-and-the-solar-parallax in within reach!