In your CD-ROM<A>, you will find several sample images that the 25-cm reflective telescope with CCD camera at the Bisei Spaceguard Center took. The size of these images is 2,048 X 2,048 = approx. 419 million pixels. This corresponds to an angular area of the night sky of about 1.3 degrees by 1.3 degrees.
What follows is the list of images.
If the first 11 characters of the file names are the same it means they are of the same area of the night sky. The numbers that follow characters denote the number of order in which images were taken. For your information, ".fts" means that the images are of FITS format.
Please try to find asteroids using these images. For your convenience, the blinking animations are also attached.
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| m01250n3500-1.fts | 2000 11 04 | 12:09:16 | 200 |
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| m01250n3500-2.fts | 2000 11 04 | 12:34:21 | 200 | ||||
| m01250n3500-3.fts | 2000 11 04 | 12:58:47 | 200 | ||||
| m02350n1630-1.fts | 2000 11 03 | 13:17:37 | 240 |
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| m02350n1630-2.fts | 2000 11 03 | 13:41:33 | 240 | ||||
| m02506n2050-1.fts | 2000 11 05 | 13:22:16 | 300 |
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| m02506n2050-2.fts | 2000 11 05 | 14:14:09 | 300 | ||||
| m02506n2050-3.fts | 2000 11 05 | 15:04:11 | 300 | ||||
| m02591n2500-1.fts | 2000 11 04 | 13:47:07 | 300 |
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| m02591n2500-2.fts | 2000 11 04 | 14:34:24 | 300 | ||||
| m02591n2500-3.fts | 2000 11 04 | 15:07:53 | 300 | ||||
| m04590n0244-1.fts | 2000 11 04 | 15:24:39 | 200 | C/2000 U5 |
(animation in Chap.4) |
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| m04590n0244-2.fts | 2000 11 04 | 15:36:13 | 200 | ||||
| m04590n0244-3.fts | 2000 11 04 | 15:43:57 | 200 | ||||
| m04590n0244-4.fts | 2000 11 04 | 15:51:40 | 200 | ||||
| m05467n0003-1.fts | 2000 11 04 | 16:01:16 | 200 |
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| m05467n0003-2.fts | 2000 11 04 | 16:12:55 | 200 | ||||
| m05467n0003-3.fts | 2000 11 04 | 16:28:22 | 200 | ||||
| m10243n4939-4.fts | 2000 10 30 | 18:40:01 | 240 |
(animation in Chap.12) |
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| m10243n4939-5.fts | 2000 10 30 | 18:44:27 | 240 | ||||
| m10243n4939-6.fts | 2000 10 30 | 18:48:52 | 240 | ||||
| m10243n4939-7.fts | 2000 10 30 | 18:53:17 | 240 | ||||
| m10243n4939-8.fts | 2000 10 30 | 18:57:43 | 240 |
(Time used is Universal Time (UT).)
Next, measure the positions of asteroids.
After finding asteroids, please try to measure their positions. If you measure the positions of asteroids for above image files, the results would be like as follows. You should send this kind of result data to your coordinator.
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K00U72X C2000 11 05.62617 02 52 23.29 +21 08 07.9 School 19.2 V 300 256 545 m02506n2050-3
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K00U71K C2000 11 05.62617 02 51 25.65 +21 11 21.3 School 300 607 455 m02506n2050-3
K00V46D C2000 11 05.55539 02 50 55.27 +21 08 21.6 School 19.1 V 300 785 510 m02506n2050-1
K00V46D C2000 11 05.59142 02 50 53.00 +21 08 09.2 School 19.2 V 300 801 526 m02506n2050-2
K00U95M C2000 11 05.55539 02 50 42.99 +21 06 20.3 School 300 861 562 m02506n2050-1
K00U95M C2000 11 05.59142 02 50 40.90 +21 06 06.4 School 300 876 578 m02506n2050-2
K00U95M C2000 11 05.62617 02 50 39.01 +21 05 54.6 School 300 895 593 m02506n2050-3
K00U95N C2000 11 05.55539 02 50 31.01 +21 00 39.4 School 300 937 710 m02506n2050-1
K00U95N C2000 11 05.59142 02 50 29.07 +21 00 26.3 School 300 951 726 m02506n2050-2
K00U95N C2000 11 05.62617 02 50 27.09 +21 00 18.0 School 300 970 739 m02506n2050-3
PLS6695 C2000 11 05.55539 02 50 52.39 +20 30 14.4 School 19.2 V 300 819 1510 m02506n2050-1
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19530 C2000 11 05.55539 02 49 09.54 +20 26 37.2 School 17.7 V 300 1453 1594 m02506n2050-1
19530 C2000 11 05.59142 02 49 07.15 +20 26 26.3 School 17.6 V 300 1470 1608 m02506n2050-2
19530 C2000 11 05.62617 02 49 04.74 +20 26 14.5 School 17.9 V 300 1492 1623 m02506n2050-3
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J99J25H C2000 11 04.60549 03 00 16.47 +24 46 11.5 School 17.4 V 300 525 1388 m02591n2500-2
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K00U95Y C2000 11 04.62874 02 58 10.76 +24 52 42.7 School 19.0 V 300 1270 1210 m02591n2500-3
K00SH9V C2000 11 04.57265 02 58 16.86 +24 49 30.4 School 17.8 V 300 1239 1279 m02591n2500-1
K00SH9V C2000 11 04.60549 02 58 14.25 +24 49 26.3 School 18.3 V 300 1251 1290 m02591n2500-2
K00SH9V C2000 11 04.62874 02 58 12.67 +24 49 23.8 School 17.8 V 300 1260 1297 m02591n2500-3
00893 C2000 11 04.66639 05 44 41.04 +00 27 11.0 School 15.0 V 300 1841 358 m05467n0003-1
00893 C2000 11 04.67448 05 44 40.87 +00 27 08.8 School 15.0 V 300 1843 361 m05467n0003-2
00893 C2000 11 04.68521 05 44 40.65 +00 27 05.9 School 15.0 V 300 1844 365 m05467n0003-3