Re: Mark IV data off by one day

["Gary W. Billings" <obs681@telusplanet.net>]

Nope, that looks like GSC 1480 0085

According to Guide the coords you want are 220.46520, 19.08608 (for the
2453110.76631 date)
and
According to Guide the coords you want are 220.57550, 18.97102 (for the
2453109.76631 date)

g.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
To: "Richard Miles" <rmiles.btee@btinternet.com>; "Billings, Gary W."
<obs681@telusplanet.net>; "tass" <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: Mark IV data off by one day


> OK, a quick look at 2453109 gave an object at:
>
> 220.70681 18.85319 2453109.76631 V 12.18
>
> If this matches up with the asteroid position on 2453110.76631 then we
> probably have it.  I will look now at 108.  It is a race between Tom
> gawking the list and Mike extracting stuff from his data base.
>
> Tom Droege
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Richard Miles <rmiles.btee@btinternet.com>
> > To: <tdroege2@earthlink.net>; Billings, Gary W. <obs681@telusplanet.net>
> > Date: 6/12/2004 2:53:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: Mark IV data off by one day
> >
> > Gary / Tom,
> >
> > Don't rule this idea out just yet.
> >
> > The best of the candidate asteroids looks to be 739 Mandeville, which
was
> > near 220.7 deg RA and +18.9 deg Dec on the date in question.  This
object
> > was nominally at V=12.0 and moving at 13 arcmin/day.  Therefore it
should
> be
> > possible to discriminate the actual day from images taken.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Richard Miles
> >
> > P.S. tried sending to TASS list earlier but my new address was not
> > recognised and so it was thrown out.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
> > To: "Billings, Gary W." <obs681@telusplanet.net>;
<tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 2:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: Mark IV data off by one day
> >
> >
> > > Gary,
> > >
> > > A good idea.  It does not have to move much.  So a search for an
> asteroid
> > > in the data would tell since our astrometry is usually good to 1 arc
> > > second.  An astroid that moved a few arc seconds a day would tell the
> > tale.
> > >
> > > Anyone want to take this on?  What we need are mag 9-11 asteroida that
> > move
> > > say 10 or more arc seconds a day somewhere between 160 and 270 degrees
> in
> > > RA and 18 to 50 degrees in Dec.  The day is 2453109 If you get the
> > position
> > > of asteroids at the time that they cross the zenith they will be
pretty
> > > close in time to when I measure them.  I will need a few, because the
> way
> > I
> > > was taking data in April only covered about half the sky.
> > >
> > > Tom Droege
> > >
> > >
> > > > [Original Message]
> > > > From: Gary W. Billings <obs681@telusplanet.net>
> > > > To: <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> > > > Date: 6/10/2004 9:03:42 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Mark IV data off by one day
> > > >
> > > > If there are any frames from the day in question that captured a
> > > > sufficiently bright moving asteroid...  that could move from
"absence
> of
> > > > evidence" to "evidence of absence" of a day error...
> > > >
> > > > g.
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
> > > > To: "Man, Stupendous" <richmond@stupendous.cis.rit.edu>;
> > > > <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> > > > Cc: <mwrsps@rit.edu>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:24 PM
> > > > Subject: RE: Mark IV data off by one day
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Here is an attempt to look another way at the possibility that the
> > Mark
> > > IV
> > > > > data was off one day on 2543109.
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