File:2025 GN1 DECam 2025-04-04 annotated.gif

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English: Discovery images of near-Earth asteroid 2025 GN1 by Cerro Tololo Observatory's Dark Energy Camera on 4 April 2025. This timelapse shows the movement of 2025 GN1 (the gray streak in the green circle) relative to background stars and galaxies. Each frame is a 40-second exposure taken in the r filter, originally taken for the DESI Transients Survey by Haille Perkins and Jan Kleyna. The image is oriented North up and East left.
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Source Raw images provided by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre's Solar System Object Image Search, and provided by NOIRLab's Astro Data Archive.
Author Haille Perkins & Jan Kleyna/DESI Transients Survey/CADC/NOIRLab/NSF. Image viewed in Aladin Desktop and processed by User:Nrco0e.
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