... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

... They were determined as a result of orbit improving on the base of all kinds of optical observations available in the catalog of observations of the Minor Planet Center on March 16, 2014 (radar observations have not been used at this stage). ... As the MPC orbits do not all were improved simultaneously with EMP orbits, only 383866 sets of elements were used for data comparison (for selected sets of elements process of improvement had started with the use of the same observations). ...

Download Izmccd (~2.7 MB). ... for 1-5 bytes is number of a numbered minor planet, . ... Positions 1-80 file "mpcreportiz.txt" are similar to positions of file "mpcreport.txt". 83-95 – errors of unit weight, . ... If this tag is " 1 0 " , this record contains results of measurements of an image of object (approximation by "PSF"),  . ... 57-66 – error in X (pixels), for first star in a multicentric image, for subsequent it is error in (distance between first star in the image and this), . ...

... Variation of systematic errors for USNO A2 (in mas per year) 23 .914 0.082 0.250 0.418 0.586 0.753 0.921 1.089 1.257 1.425 1.593 4 4. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 15 ± 7± 1± 3± 3± 10 ± 10 ± 11 ± 6± 10 ± 12 ± and their errors USNO UCAC USNO UCAC A2.0 2 3 B1.0 4 (1998) (2006) (2003) (2012) 37 27 11 4 732 529 778 501 050 078 775 387 (34 610 829) (17 209 447) (9 744 401) () Distribution of observations ( ...

Rules for natural satellites observation rough data CONTENT file Version 28.06.2000 /Arlot J.-E., Emelianov N./ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents. ... IAU code> - <observatory name> <NL> <NL> Reference. ... planet number>-<planet name>[:<quantity>], <NL> <satellite number> [-<temporary name>] [-<satellite name>]:<quantity> , <NL> ... <satellite number> [-<temporary name>] [-<satellite name>]:<quantity> <NL> reference frame: astrometric | ...

New reduction of minor planets photographic plates obtained with Pulkovo Normal Astrograph A.A. Berezhnoy Pulkovo Observatory of RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Minor Planet observations at Pulkovo Periodical observations of 14 bright asteroids named Selected Minor Planets (SMP) were performed at Pulkovo since 1948 within the international framework started by works of B.V. Numerov and D. Brouwer. ... 108 133 113 74 124 67 97 88 14 84 64 5 20 19 Epochs (YYYY.MM) 1200 Mean values of total obs. ...

... Up: Data Analysis and Processing Techniques . ... Also, a method for quality control of CCD observations is suggested. ... Everyone who observes a celestial object using a CCD detects moving celestial objects as a ``by product''. ... We hope that our investigations may be useful for near-Earth space control and also for searches of the moving celestial objects through analysis of old and new CCD frames obtained at any amateur or professional astronomical observatory. ...