Detect, Identify, and Measure Asteroids, Comets, and Artificial Satellites with Tycho Tracker
The Tycho Tracker software has evolved since its development began in 2018. The latest version supports measuring asteroids, comets, variable stars, and artificial satellites. In this session, we will examine several examples of how to use the Tycho Tracker software for the detection and measurement of asteroids, comets, and artificial satellites.
(1) Discovery: How to use synthetic tracking for blind search.
(2) Recovery: How to use synthetic tracking to recover objects.
(3) Asteroid Photometry: Using the light curve module to generate time-series photometry of asteroids, and determine rotation period.
(4) Comet Photometry: Using the new comet photometry module to compute Afrho value for comets and generate measurements in ICQ format.
(5) Artificial satellites: Detection, identification, and measurement using the new FAST Tracker module.