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Thank you for your useful comment. It sent me down a brief rabbit hole of looking for a grid of amateur telescope owners cooperating for NEO object detection. I
by yourapostasy 2y ago
Thank you for your useful comment. It sent me down a brief rabbit hole of looking for a grid of amateur telescope owners cooperating for NEO object detection. I found eSTAR for the big boy telescopes [1] [2], but nothing for enthusiasts. I ran across NEO Surveyor that launches in September 2027, will run for 5 years, and is aiming for 90% coverage [3], so I suppose a grid of amateurs contributing telescope time into a software-driven grid and detection system won't be helpful?
[1] https://indico.cern.ch/event/423169/contributions/1890157/attachments/893398/1258068/eric_saunders.pdf https://indico.cern.ch/event/423169/contributions/1890157/at...
[2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002SPIE.4845...13S/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002SPIE.4845...13S/abstra...
[3] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/near-earth-object-surveyor https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/near-earth-object-surveyor
- schiffern 2y agoYou might be interested in the work of Robert Holmes. https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/33153-q-a-how-robert-holmes-surveys-the-sky-from-his-illinois-observatory https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/33153-q... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Holmes_(astronomer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Holmes_(astronomer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWLDvuK_4qU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWLDvuK_4qU