Observation by Alex Pratt: Video astrometry and photometry of PHA (...

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Alex Pratt

Observer

Alex Pratt

Observed

2020 Apr 24 - 20:33

Uploaded

2020 May 17 - 15:03

Equipment

C11 f/10 with f/3.3 focal reducer
Watec 910 video camera
IOTA-VTI GPS time inserter
OccuRec (recorder)
Tangra (analysis)

Exposure

Video integration settings between 0.16s and 0.64s

Location

Z92

Target name

PHA (52768) 1998 OR2

Title

Video astrometry and photometry of PHA (52768) 1998 OR2

About this image

I was able to monitor this Potentially Hazardous Asteroid during March and April. Its long-duration apparition and reasonable weather resulted in 90 GPS-timestamped video astrometric measures from 22 nights submitted to the MPC.

NEODyS use MPC data to derive an object's residuals in RA, Dec, magnitude and a chi-squared data quality assessment. The attached diagram shows these residuals from stations using standard CCD astrometry, my video astrometry (Z92) and another video observer (Z43).

NEODyS magnitude residuals are obtained from the tangle of G, R and V magnitudes submitted by observers. In the chi-squared results, values nearer to 0 are assessed as being better quality.

Files associated with this observation

Video astrometry and photometry of (52768) 1998 OR2-ARP.jpg (542.7 kB)

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Jeremy Shears, David Swan, Dr Andrew Smith, Mr Leonard Entwisle, Graham Winstanley, David Basey, Andrew Dumbleton, Nick Quinn, Andy Wilson, Dr Paul Leyland, Peter Carson, Michael O'Connell

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