I captured main belt asteroids (243) Ida and (180) Garumna together in the same patch of sky on January 1st from my backyard in Edmond using my Celestron Origin.
The two animations below cover approximately 45 minutes and show the two asteroids moving across the sky in the constellation Gemini.
The first animation is a full field view of both asteroids with minor cropping to remove stacking artifacts from around the edges caused by field rotation. The second is a cropped closeup of (243) Ida.
More details follow below the images.
Full Field
Close Up
Observation Details
Date: January 1, 2026 04:30-05:15 UT
Seeing: Fair Transparency: Fair Sky Brightness: Bortle 6-7
Location: Edmond, Oklahoma USA
Image Details
Ten 16x15 sec images (one minute gap between images)
240 sec (4 min) per image
ISO 200
Field of View:
Full Field 60.8x36.5 arcmin
Close-up 32.5x20.3 arcmin
Equipment
Celestron Origin I (150 mm f/2.2 RASA)
Imaging Sensor: Sony IMX178LQJ
Image Capture & Processing
Capture:
Celestron Origin onboard capture, stack, calibrate
Process:
Deep Sky Stacker (Register/Align Images)
GIMP (Adjust Curves/Levels/Color, Animate, Annotate)