Asteroid and Remote Planets Section

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Site guide

Updates

ARPS

Section objectives

Section history

Dr Andrew Hollis

Section officers

2007 Section meeting report

Presentations (on BAA website)

• Observing asteroids – a personal Journey (2.1 MB pdf)
• Finding and observing asteroids (1.06 MB pdf)
• Asteroid lightcurve photometry (1.65 MB pdf)
• Asteroid and Remote Planets Section – past present and future (666 KB pdf)
• New definitions for Solar System bodies (255 kb pdf)
• Magnitude ? Absolutely ! Possibly… (666 kb pdf)
• Asteroids (3.43 MB pdf)

Asteroids

• Asteroid news

• Asteroids – where are they ?
• New definitions for Solar System bodies

Information

• Books

• Software
• Links
• Space missions
• Meetings

Tools and Techniques

• Astrometry – Obtaining an Observatory Code

• Astrometry of Near Earth Objects – Stephen Laurie
• An Introduction to astrometry – Nick James (Link to BAA Journal, Feb 2004)
• Astrometry of Near Earth Objects – Follow-up observations
• Astrometry – Measuring trails
• Star catalogues

• Photometry
• Asteroid lightcurves – Part I
• Asteroid lightcurves – Part II
• Photometric data
• Occultations
• Limovie
• Visual observations
• Differential photometry using Canopus
• Timing
• Observing with a digital SLR camera and gravity drive - Maurice Gavin
• Tycho photometry - Mark Kidger and Fabiola Martin-Luis
• USNO photometry - Mark Kidger

Observing and imaging

• What to observe
• ARPS form

Observations

· Publication of observations

· Observations received

· Guide plot of 2001 GQ2 (3 nights obs)

· Guide plot of 2001 GQ2 (1 nights obs)

· Eros orbital elements

· 2004 XP14

· 1997 XF11

Introduction