Access to Astronomical Catalogues

J/other/CoSka/33.159    Asteroid positions in 2002         (Neslusan+, 2003)
Astrometry of minor planets made at the Skalnate Pleso Observatory
in the year 2002.
    Neslusan L.
   <Contr. Astron. Obs. Skalnate Pleso, 33, 159-172 (2003)>
   =2003CoSka..33..159N
ADC_Keywords: Minor planets ; Positional data

Keywords: astrometry - asteroids


Abstract:
    The paper presents the results of position determinations of minor
    planets carried out at the Skalnate Pleso Observatory in the year
    2002. 109 CCD observations of 21 minor planets are given together
    with the list of reference stars.

File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table1.dat        65      109   Position of minor planets
table2.dat        29      844   Reference stars


See also:
       B/astorb  : Orbits of Minor Planets and Comets (Bowell+ 2003)
          I/252  : The USNO-A2.0 Catalogue (Monet+ 1998)
          VII/91 : IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey (Veeder+ 1986)
   J/A+A/375/275 : Asteroidal I, J, K in the DENIS Survey (Baudrand+ 2001)
   J/AJ/123/2070 : ISO deep asteroid search (Tedesco+, 2002)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat

   Bytes Format Units   Label   Explanations

   1-  3  I3    --      IDobs   Serial number of observation
   5- 16  A12   ---     MP      Number of minor planet (1)
  18- 21  I4    yr      Exp.Y   U.T. date  of the middle of the exposure (year)
      22  A1    ---     ---     [/]
  23- 24  I2    "month" Exp.M   U.T. date  of the middle of the exposure (month)
      25  A1    ---     ---     [/]
  26- 33  F8.5  d       Exp.D   U.T. date  of the middle of the exposure (day)
  35- 36  I2    h       RAh     Right ascension (J2000.0)
  38- 39  I2    min     RAm     Right ascension (J2000.0)
  41- 45  F5.2  s       RAs     Right ascension (J2000.0)
      47  A1    ---     DE-     Declination sign (J2000.0)
  48- 49  I2    deg     DEd     Declination (J2000.0)
  51- 52  I2    arcmin  DEm     Declination (J2000.0)
  54- 57  F4.1  arcsec  DEs     Declination (J2000.0)
  59- 61  F3.1  arcsec  DRA     Mean residual in RA
  63- 65  F3.1  arcsec  DDE     Mean residual in DE

Note (1): If unnumbered, yet, the preliminary designation is given in
          parentheses


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat

   Bytes Format Units   Label      Explanations

   1-  3  I3    ---     IDobs      Serial number of observation
       5  A1    ---     ---        [A]
   7- 19  F13.8 ---     USNO-A2.0  Number in the USNO-A2.0 (I/252)
  21- 24  F4.1  arcsec  dRA        O-C difference in RA
  26- 29  F4.1  arcsec  dDE        O-C difference in DE


History:
    From electronic version of the journal
(End)                         James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS]    12-Jan-2004