Faulkes Telescope Observations
Follow-up of archive image asteroids
Asteroid 23593 images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope North at
Haleakala, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory.
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My main project was to search through archive images of the Subaru telescope
looking for and identifying asteroids. I found quite a large number of them
both already known but mostly unknown asteroids. Two of the known asteroids
were asteroid 23593 and asteroid 71250. Once I had completed my project and
recorded all the necessary data I decided to try and follow up two of the
asteroids I observed in an image from the
Subaru telescope taken on
31/12/2005, almost ten years ago. The two asteroids I selected were (23593)
and (71250). By using the Faulkes telescope to try and observe and asteroid I
had identified from an image taken ten years earlier would help improve the
accuracy of the asteroid's orbit substantially. I used the
Minor Planet Centre's ephemeris service to pinpoint where each asteroid
would be on the date that I had booked the Faulkes telescope for so I would
be able to correctly position the telescope in order to see each
asteroid. The pictures below were taken with the Faulkes telescope and show
the asteroid 23593 in its state at 11/08/2015 ten years after I identified it
in the Subaru telescope's image archive.
Thanks are due to the
Las Cumbres
Observatory and
Faulkes
Telescope Project for giving us time to use their telescopes which
allowed these observations to be made.
-Liam.
2015 August 11th
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Last Revised: 2015 September 3rd
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