Field of view
Field of view
The first image acquired by NASA's Lucy spacecraft of the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh (small dot outlined in yellow), the first asteroid the spacecraft will visit on 1 November 2023 on its 12-year journey of discovery. The image was acquired when Lucy was 23 million kilometres from the asteroid. The brightest star in this field of view is HD 34258, a magnitude 7.6 star in the constellation Auriga, which is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. At this distance, Dinkinesh is approximately 150,000 times fainter than the star.
Credit:
NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL