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Originally Posted by rogerg
I was hoping to find out the procedure to identify the objects, not necessarily these particular ones, so hadn't focused on their individual location etc. Having someone else identify them for me won't help me in a few days time when I stumble upon another...
I'll dig up the co-ordinates tomorrow hopefully, when I'm back in the observatory.
Thanks,
Roger.
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If anyone does find an object in their image a good starting point is the minor planet checker (below) this will identify any known minor planets around the date and co-ordinates. You can use it backwards also, so here is a starting point.
If there is nothing listed then the images you have can probably be used to determine its movement and if lucky then you may have a discovery that you may have the priviledge of naming (subject of course to IAU procedures).
Jim Riffle (USA) discovered 2 asteroids in images he took from Leyburn when he was in Australia a few years back.
Peterm.
http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/checkmp.cgi