A British company called StarLight Express makes a combo ccd and guidance system that works through pixel by pixel comparison of each ccd frame to instruct the guidance of the telescope. They may already have something that will work. Barney B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Renstrom" <JohnRenstrom@hotmail.com> To: "Astronomy in Utah" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Re: NEO Detection Software Idea...
These type of objects would not give false positives...They would definitely show up as an anomalous object, but until that anomaly was matched with at lease 3 other instances of the same anomaly moving in a distinct trajectory over time, they wouldn't even be mentioned by the system. In fact, after just a few days or even a few hours, they would quickly be dropped as a possible NEO because they would not be substantiated in any other submitted images.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Tenney" <retenney@yahoo.com> To: "Astronomy in Utah" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Re: NEO Detection Software Idea...
One other thing. It seems like every time I'm out observing I have at least one or more meteors and/or satellites pass through the field of view. Given all the space junk up there and meteoritic infall, accounting for all of that in comparative images might also give you a bucketload of false positives...
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