KBO Astrometry Using Small Telescopes

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21443501d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #435.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.706

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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CCD images of Makemake (2005 FY9), the second largest KBO, were taken with a 14-inch telescope during the summer of 2008. The position of Makemake was found by comparing its position on the frames to UCAC2 stars in the frame. Observations were limited by the tracking capabilities of the telescopes and the airmass. It was found that the average right ascension offset from the ephemeris was 0.0134 arcseconds with a root mean square of 0.3394 and the average declination offset was -0.3855 arcseconds with an rms of 0.4634. It is possible to do KBO astrometry with small telescopes, however several hundred frames are required to equal the quality of observations on larger telescopes.

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