On 07 Nov 2007, at 11:20, Kurt Fisher wrote:
How do you search for a new asteriod?
Easy... Spend more money on equipment than you're willing to admit. Add a lot of time. And then throw in a great deal of luck. :) But seriously, in my case, I shoot pictures of typically 5 to 10 random parts of the sky 10 to 15 minutes apart, load them into the computer and compare them by rapidly flashing one then the other. The stars will have not moved between exposures but any minor planet that happens to be in the field will so it pretty well just jumps out at you as it hops back and forth. Pretty simple and straight forward, actually (albeit a bit boring at times). One just has to be persistent and hope that one of those random fields will contain a previously unknown rock. patrick