Minor Planet - 133 Cyrene

07/11/2008 (10:49) by Petri Kehusmaa

Last night I continued testing automated session with CCDAutopilot. Target was asteroid 133 Cyrene. This is data for more than 4 hours. Individual exposure 2 minutes and 103 data points.

133 Cyrene

133 Cyrene

Minor Planet - 376 Geometria

06/11/2008 (12:00) by Petri Kehusmaa

I decided to have this asteroid for my target when testing CCDAutopilot. This session was fully automated for almost 4 hours (I was a sleep when session ended). Everything went well and here is the result. There is a sum image where asteroid movement is visible and lightcurve to see variations of reflected sunlight from asteroid’s surface.

376 Geometria trail

376 Geometria trail

376 Geometria

376 Geometria

Minor Planet (721) Tabora with Leo Trio

01/04/2008 (09:01) by Petri Kehusmaa
721 Tabora

721 Tabora

Marked in image is minor planet (721) Tabora. I found it with Visual PinPoint and actually there were three minor planets in a same field of view with Leo trio!

Asteroid observations returned observatory code (B64) from MPC!

24/03/2008 (21:36) by Petri Kehusmaa

On 19./20.03.2008 I observed several main belt asteroids to report astrometry to Minor Planet Center (MPC). Obviously the data was good enough because MPC rewarded me with my own observatory code (B64)! Here are few animations from that night.

451 Patientia

451 Patientia

369 Aeria

369 Aeria

739 Mandeville

739 Mandeville