(meteorobs) asteroid over ic 410 ?

[Marco Langbroek]

Hi Nico,

A very useful on-line "tool" is Lowell Observatories ASTPLOT:

http://asteroid.lowell.edu/cgi-bin/koehn/astplot

This plots all known asteroids for a given time and date and sky location.

Note: when you use it, it needs a minute or so to generate the star plot so have 
patience.

Astplot does not show any known object at the position of the object in your 
photograph. That is a good sign that it could potentially be "new".

I suggest you measure the positions of the object on you images with 
Astrometrica (www.astrometrica.at), report them to the MPC and try to recover it 
tonight.

- Marco



Nico Lonetti schreef:
> Hi,
> last night I taken several frames of ic 410 in auriga.
> 
> You can see the full resolution picture from here:
> 
> http://www.lonnic.com/astro/ic0410.2008.02.24-velato.html
> 
> At the moment I'm investigating to see if there is
> a new asteroid over this nebula ..
> 
> could someone help me ?
> This is my firs asteroid over one of my ccd photo.
> 
> Nico Lonetti,
> Italy
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