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Rosetta 2mar2005 This is the assemblation of 150 30-seconds images of the recent earth fly-by of the Rosetta ESA-spacecraft. The images were made in the night of 2nd march 2005 from 00h01m to 01h25m UT. At about 1/5 of the trace, i.e.about at 00h20m UT one can evidently see a brightness increase of the satellite, maybe due to a more favourable reflection of the sunlight. The roughly brightness of the spacecraft was about 17mag. Image dimensions: 16x13 arcmin. Orientation: East is left, North is up. Telescope: 40cm f/4 +CCD.

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