October 19, 2007

When the weather clears and I have the opportunity to get my new SBIG ST-402ME CCD camera oriented and working properly this is where I will post astrometry measurements. I will be submitting measurements to the Harvard MPC working towards getting my observatory an official designation. For more information on this subject check out the link below.

Guide to Minor Body Astrometry

27 October 2007

I had just over two hours tonight to catch a few more asteroids and do reduction measurements using Charon, part of Guide8. The report Charon generated in the format that the MPC at Harvard will accept is below. Charon pattern matched these five asteroids using the UCAC2 catalog. Hopefully this will be enough data that I will be given an official MPC observatory code.

The UCAC2 is a high density, highly accurate, astrometric catalog of 48,366,996 stars covering the sky completely from -90 to +40 degrees in declination, and going up to +52 degrees in some areas. The northern limit is a function of right ascension. Proper motions and photometry are provided for all stars. Positions are on the ICRS (International Celestial Reference System) and given for the epoch J2000.0.

The UCAC2 is the second release of the ongoing UCAC project, designed to observe the entire sky from about R magnitude 7.5 to 16. The observed positional errors are about 20 mas for the stars in the 10 to 14 magnitude range, with about 70 mas at the limiting magnitude of R about 16.

November 3, 2007 note: The 'XXX' observatory designation is now gone and the official MPC H53 is now in place in my reports.

The report below was submitted to the MPC for observations done on Feburary 02, 2008.


MPC REPORT, BAO:


COD H53
CON [dave@xxxxxx.org]
OBS D.A. Birmingham
MEA D.A. Birmingham
ACK BAO Observations
AC2 dave@xxxxxx.org
TEL 0.31-m f/3 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
COM Reduction done using Charon
COM Charon version Mar 04 2007 15:06:10
COM Report file created Sat Feb 2 18:49:08 2008
NET UCAC2
01685 C2008 02 03.03367 03 40 52.69 -02 44 42.0 12.7 R H53
01685 C2008 02 03.03443 03 40 53.15 -02 44 41.4 12.7 R H53
01685 C2008 02 03.03519 03 40 53.59 -02 44 40.9 12.9 R H53
01685 C2008 02 03.03588 03 40 54.00 -02 44 40.4 12.7 R H53
01685 C2008 02 03.03653 03 40 54.38 -02 44 39.9 12.8 R H53
01685 C2008 02 03.03713 03 40 54.75 -02 44 39.6 12.7 R H53

K02A04V C2008 02 03.05563 03 39 18.77 +42 35 32.3 18.3 R H53
K02A04V C2008 02 03.05706 03 39 18.94 +42 35 31.4 17.9 R H53
K02A04V C2008 02 03.05935 03 39 19.49 +42 35 30.7 17.9 R H53
K02A04V C2008 02 03.06045 03 39 19.60 +42 35 30.0 18.0 R H53
K02A04V C2008 02 03.06153 03 39 19.95 +42 35 30.0 17.9 R H53
K02A04V C2008 02 03.06385 03 39 20.29 +42 35 28.2 18.0 R H53

J99W02A C2008 02 03.06793 03 49 20.75 +36 13 09.0 17.7 R H53
J99W02A C2008 02 03.06916 03 49 20.96 +36 13 06.6 17.7 R H53
J99W02A C2008 02 03.07037 03 49 21.17 +36 13 04.5 17.7 R H53
J99W02A C2008 02 03.07157 03 49 21.32 +36 13 02.2 17.6 R H53
J99W02A C2008 02 03.07273 03 49 21.58 +36 12 59.3 17.8 R H53
J99W02A C2008 02 03.07389 03 49 21.76 +36 12 58.2 17.6 R H53

K03Y45E C2008 02 03.08798 05 19 22.72 +11 05 52.2 17.7 R H53
K03Y45E C2008 02 03.09050 05 19 22.51 +11 05 47.4 17.3 R H53
K03Y45E C2008 02 03.09175 05 19 22.41 +11 05 45.1 17.6 R H53
K03Y45E C2008 02 03.09297 05 19 22.31 +11 05 43.1 17.7 R H53
K03Y45E C2008 02 03.09427 05 19 22.22 +11 05 40.8 17.6 R H53
K03Y45E C2008 02 03.09556 05 19 22.10 +11 05 38.2 17.6 R H53

K05T45U C2008 02 03.11531 07 04 26.96 +35 28 57.8 15.9 R H53
K05T45U C2008 02 03.11627 07 04 26.79 +35 29 02.9 16.0 R H53
K05T45U C2008 02 03.11703 07 04 26.63 +35 29 07.0 15.8 R H53
K05T45U C2008 02 03.11791 07 04 26.48 +35 29 11.5 15.8 R H53
K05T45U C2008 02 03.11868 07 04 26.32 +35 29 15.9 15.9 R H53
K05T45U C2008 02 03.11951 07 04 26.17 +35 29 20.2 15.9 R H53

0029P C2008 02 03.12862 05 50 10.98 +30 02 19.9 16.9 N H53
0029P C2008 02 03.12988 05 50 10.95 +30 02 19.6 16.7 N H53
0029P C2008 02 03.13161 05 50 10.88 +30 02 19.5 17.0 N H53
0029P C2008 02 03.13251 05 50 10.93 +30 02 19.3 16.4 N H53
0029P C2008 02 03.13421 05 50 10.86 +30 02 19.1 16.7 N H53
0029P C2008 02 03.13773 05 50 10.83 +30 02 19.1 16.5 N H53

J91N03T C2008 02 03.14567 08 36 20.67 +02 56 09.7 17.2 R H53
J91N03T C2008 02 03.14655 08 36 20.53 +02 56 08.5 16.9 R H53
J91N03T C2008 02 03.14740 08 36 20.46 +02 56 08.3 17.4 R H53
J91N03T C2008 02 03.14832 08 36 20.39 +02 56 07.2 17.2 R H53
J91N03T C2008 02 03.14922 08 36 20.28 +02 56 06.4 17.3 R H53
J91N03T C2008 02 03.15024 08 36 20.11 +02 56 06.1 17.3 R H53

K00CA1N C2008 02 03.15297 08 30 58.10 -02 03 03.4 18.0 R H53
K00CA1N C2008 02 03.15491 08 30 57.88 -02 03 02.4 18.4 R H53
K00CA1N C2008 02 03.15842 08 30 57.59 -02 02 59.7 17.6 R H53
K00CA1N C2008 02 03.16079 08 30 57.41 -02 02 57.7 18.5 R H53
K00CA1N C2008 02 03.16486 08 30 57.01 -02 02 57.4 18.2 R H53
K00CA1N C2008 02 03.16614 08 30 56.90 -02 02 56.7 18.0 R H53

K02X04K C2008 02 03.16841 08 20 32.68 +37 12 57.8 16.3 R H53
K02X04K C2008 02 03.17077 08 20 32.24 +37 12 56.1 17.4 R H53
K02X04K C2008 02 03.17180 08 20 32.04 +37 12 55.5 17.4 R H53
K02X04K C2008 02 03.17283 08 20 31.92 +37 12 54.2 17.3 R H53
K02X04K C2008 02 03.17573 08 20 31.41 +37 12 51.5 17.8 R H53
K02X04K C2008 02 03.17680 08 20 31.36 +37 12 50.4 17.6 R H53