Asteroid and Remote Planets Section

Last updated 2013 January 22

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Site guide

Updates

News archive

ARPS

Section objectives

Section history

Dr Andrew Hollis

Section officers

2007 Section meeting report

Presentations and publications

• Observing asteroids – a personal Journey (2.1 MB pdf)
• Finding and observing asteroids (1.06 MB pdf)
• Asteroid lightcurve photometry (1.65 MB pdf)
• Asteroid and Remote Planets Section – past present and future (666 KB pdf)
• New definitions for Solar System bodies (255 kb pdf)
• Magnitude ? Absolutely ! Possibly… (666 kb pdf)

• Asteroids (3.43 MB pdf)

• Practical NEO work (Peter Birtwhistle – 2008 July SAGAS meeting)
• Asteroids: past, present and future (2007 BAA Presidential Address by Richard Miles)
• The H and G magnitude system for asteroids (article based on presentation given at 2007 February 24 BAA Observers’ Workshop at the Open University in Milton Keynes)
• A method for determining the V magnitude of asteroids from CCD images (paper by Richard Miles and Roger Dymock published in the June 2009 issue of the BAA Journal)

— A method of determining the V magnitude of asteroids from CCD images - Hints and tips for using Astrometrica and Guide

— The rotation period of asteroid (4080) Galinskij (short paper published in the December 2009 issue of the BAA Journal

Asteroids

• Asteroid news

• Asteroids – where are they ?
• New definitions for Solar System bodies

Information

• Books

• Software
• Links
• Space missions
• Meetings

Tools and Techniques

• Astrometry – Obtaining an Observatory Code

• Astrometry of Near Earth Objects – Stephen Laurie
• An Introduction to astrometry – Nick James (Link to BAA Journal, Feb 2004)
• Astrometry of Near Earth Objects – Follow-up observations
• Astrometry – Measuring trails
• Astrometry ‘how-to’ – Tim Spahr (Link to MPC website)
• Hunting Asteroids from Your Backyard (Link to Sky and Telescope article)
• A Guide to Asteroid Discovery Using the Sierra Stars Observatory Network (Link to SSON)
• Star catalogues

• Photometry
• Asteroid lightcurves – Part I
• Asteroid lightcurves – Part II
• Occultations
• Limovie
• Visual observations
• Differential photometry using Canopus
• Timing
• Observing with a digital SLR camera and gravity drive - Maurice Gavin
• Tycho photometry - Mark Kidger and Fabiola Martin-Luis
• USNO photometry - Mark Kidger
• Video processing

• A method for determining the V magnitude of asteroids from CCD images (paper by Richard Miles and Roger Dymock published in the June 2009 issue of the BAA Journal)

• A method of determining the V magnitude of asteroids from CCD images - Hints and tips for using Astrometrica and Guide

Observing and imaging

• What to observe
• ARPS form

Observations

· Publication of observations

· Observations received

Introduction