The motion of Itokawa over the 12 minutes of observation by AKARI. The image size is about 7.4 arcmin x 7.4 arcmin. This movie is composed from the images taken at 7 micrometres shown in Figure 1 and also at 11 micrometres. Note that the brightness of stars change at different wavelengths and this composition causes the stars to appear to twinkle. The images in this movie are without any cosmetic retouching and are as raw as those that astronomers themselves use for research. Many scratches and anomalies from cosmic rays and other effects can be clearly seen.

In fact, there are two more asteroids detected faintly in the image. Can you find them? The answer is here.