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1) How many images are there in database ? How old are they ? 2) Are the same images repeating to me or I always get new series ? 3) How often (if any) are the new fields added ? 4) Who checks and reports them ? So far I cannot see any AZ team members here checking our results. 5) Generally, is there a chance of finding something undiscovered or images are just too old and same areas are already covered and re-discovered by newer projects ? 6) Last, but not least - what will happen if new asteroid is found ? What will we receive (any chance to name it or be listed as discoverer ?) ?
(1) no idea, but a single field from CSS (Catalina Sky Survey) is 4k x 4k pixels IIRC and the images we're seeing at 256x256 so there are 256 of them from a single field. During one night, the CSS can take a few dozen of those. I wouldn't be surprised if this first batch contained a few thousand image sets (but could be much much more) (2) pretty sure no single user views the same image set twice (3) no idea (4) please see my comment here http://talk.asteroidzoo.org/#/boards/BAZ0000002/discussions/DAZ00000kq (5) tbh, while I think the chances of finding a new object are not too bad, the chances of a recovery of the same object in images within a few days (of the discovery) are pretty slim and it gets even worse from there. (6) naming / discovery credit will only ever belong to CSSBasically, here's the deal with asteroid discovery. If you find a new asteroid, it will need to be observed on 2 and 2 nights during least 3-4 oppositions (~1.5 years each) before it can receive a permanent designation (a number), after which it can be named. The CSS observer will be listed as the discoverer, for years the Minor Planet Center (MPC) has not been accepting name suggestions for asteroids discovered by folks participating in asteroid search programs - this has changed after NEAT discoveries through SkyMorph in ~2008/2009 IIRC. You may be able to suggest a name to the CSS staff who may accept it and forward it to MPC and IAUplease note that I'm in no way associated with this project so these are just educated guesses on my part
Спасибо за вопросы и ответы. Товарищ практически подтвердил все сказанное мной ранее.
I assume, once enough people tag a new asteroid, someone will have to manually go to the original data and take astrometric measurements manually (as the assumption is that the software missed it). The users who tagged the object then may appear on the official report to the Minor Planet Center (among the measurers) - but that's just a theory.Looking at the known objects and seeing that the last time they were observable (elongation > 60) was in Q4 of last year, unless the same object is then found by users in images from a nearby night (within ~7 days), the found object will simply be lost. At least two observation during a single opposition are required to attain the discovery credit but the hopes of a direct recovery during future oppositions is virtually zero without at least ~4 weeks of observations during the discovery opposition.It is far more likely, that (at least at this stage) new objects originally missed by the software will be used for machine learning, i.e. to find better parametrization / a metric for the software to automatically find moving objects in the data and to distinguish them from artifacts