2007 SF11 Asteroid

Hawkeye Observatory / Scudco Telescope

On September 14- 2007, I was imaging a Galaxy Cluster in Andromeda. While processing the images,
I noticed a streak across the corner of three images. Figuring that this was an Asteroid, I checked
MegaStar for known Asteroid in the field of view. There was none shown, so the next day I downloaded
an updated Asteroid file from the Lowell Observatory. I loaded that file into MegaStar and there was still nothing
in that area. I got in contact the the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at Harvard University on Monday 9-17-07 and
during the next week I exchanged information with my contact . On Monday 9-24-07 I got an email response
back from MPC that I will post (unedited) below.

Hi Carl,

Congrats! Your object has been designated:

K07S11F

here's the orbit:

2007 SF11
Epoch 2007 Aug. 28.0 TT = JDT 2454340.5                 MPC
M 337.56083              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.23438261     Peri.   70.81773     +0.76453446     -0.62814970
a   2.6052683      Node   327.61627     +0.44169102     +0.67393813
e   0.3074352      Incl.   15.66558     +0.46946364     +0.38888991
P   4.21           H   16.4           G   0.15
From 22 observations 2007 Sept. 2-21.

It is very, very rare indeed to have someone find something
that is new on the first try, and get it measured properly on
the first try!

We assigned you observatory code H52.

Feel free to write or call if you have any questions.

Tim

This has been one terrific experience. I just wish that I can say that I was actually looking for an Asteroid. This just
"Dropped In My Lap". Never the less, I will take it. I made some AVI clips from my images and posted a link to
them below. The largest AVI clip is 7mb, so it might take awhile to load. Please note that these images
are only "Calibrated". Minimal processing was done to preserve Astrometry integrity.