Astronomy Live | Asteroid 2020 SW Close Approach Time Lapse @Astronomy_Live | Uploaded September 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Music: The Divine Cosmos by Stellardrone
Through intermittent clouds, I was able to capture these images of asteroid 2020 SW approaching earth closer than our own geostationary satellites. This was tracked using NEOTraker based on the orbital elements at the start of the time lapse. The asteroid gradually drifts out of view due to Earth's gravity perturbing its orbit! My NEOTraker software is open source and can be downloaded from GitHub:
github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/NEOTraker/blob/master/NEOTraker.py