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Article: Using Astrometrica for Asteroid Searching

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Jeff Nott (theodog) and Scott Alder (tornado33) have written an article about Using Astrometrica for Asteroid Searching.

You can find the article on the IceInSpace Projects and Articles page, or directly by clicking on the link below:

Using Astrometrica for Asteroid Searching

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Excellent article Jeff and Scott, thanks.
Couple of questions I have about this process.
You mention the file names are the center location of the field, how do you get these numbers?

If you want to identify the Asteroid from a known database i assume then this would be required. So I assume then it is better to use a capture software that can capture the frames direct to Fits file with the header containing the relevant information gathered from a connection to the Telescope.

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Couple of questions I have about this process.
You mention the file names are the center location of the field, how do you get these numbers?
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Thanks Fahim
To do a manual star match in Astrometrica it needs to know the approx center of the field. To do this I have the field open in Guide 8 (any starmap would do) and write the center of the field into the image file name.
eg
22h 45m 32.1s -12d 33m 45s would be 2245321-123345.
Thus I will always have a copy of the position.
If you set it up Astromentica will query a star database online.
Load Astromenica and look at the tutorials it's pretty straight forward.

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Jeff,

That makes sense now thanks. I will check out the tutes.

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