NEO Follow-up Using the University of Hawaii 88-inch Telescope
Abstract
The University of Hawaii 2.2m telescope (UH88) has been used for running a successful NEO follow-up program for many years. We currently observe eight nights per month for NEO recovery and orbital refinement, with 20% of the observing time funded by NASA under grants from ROSES12 and ROSES13. We focus on targets fainter than 21 magnitude and are capable of achieving RMS uncertainties approaching 0.1 arcsec. Under the NASA ROSES13 Grant we are refurbishing the telescope with a new STA 1600 10K x 10K monolithic CCD camera, which will increase our field of view by a factor of four to 14' x 14' and improve our readout time.We present the current status of the asteroid recovery program and the criteria we use for target selection.
- Publication:
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AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts #48
- Pub Date:
- October 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016DPS....4830506F