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Thanks peter, it was fun to be picked up, and gave me some interaction with the team at Mt Palomar observatory who were looking at clouds...
Most importantly though, I managed to get enough data to provide a meaningful report together. MPC require 2 or 3 observations over 2 or 3 nights to ensure accuracy at sub arc-second levels and to be certain of ruling out any spurious results.
Thankfully for us, Aussie Amateur Hristo Pavlov has done an immensely good job of writing software to streamline the process for video astronomers. My initial results are looking good with tight error bars. The plots are angled due to the rapid movement of the object - a normal asteroid would be flat!
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