Re: Two more minor planets in DS23

[Tony Beresford <aberesford@iprimus.com.au>]

At 22:41 17/06/02, Patrick Wils wrote:
>I found two more minor planets in DS23:
>
>Has anyone any idea how to look for asteroids in a
>more automated way ?  What I do now is to look in
>Guide 7 whether there are any known asteroids in a
>TASS field at the time of observation.  I probably can
>write a program to instruct Guide to do this
>automatically, so that I don't have to key in position
>and time, but it remains cumbersome, 

Patrick, if you know the field centre and exposure time,
then MPCHECKER facility at MPC will give you all
asteroids in a given radius brighter than a given magnitude
that are known. There are not supposed to be any mag 14
unknown asteroids. In the unlikely event  a very temporarily 
bright enough NEA came thru it would be moving fast enough to trail 
and probably wouldnt get thru the pipeline.
Your idea of checking against the GCS seems best for transient images
as a whole.
Tony Beresford
Adelaide, So. Australia