Fast Asteroid photometry

[Dark Feather]

Hello all,

is it possible to have photometry of a moving asteroid?
I can currently do that just by re-clicking on the asteroid and do the photometry, but it is annoying, it would be nice if astap can follow it...

Thanks!
Nicola

[han.k]

Hi Nicola,

Annotation is already possible. Does the magnitude change much over time? I can have a look if that is easy to implement. Can you share an image series to test the concept?

Han

[han.k]

Here a first result of the asteroide images you shared. Will issue this version tonight or tomorrow. Are you on Windows, Linux or MacOS?

[han.k]

I will release a Windows development version in the next hour or so.

To make it run you first have to add asteroid annotations to all files. Go to the batch processing and execute menu "Add asteroid and comet annotation" for all files. Then in tab photometry, select all files, click on the first file to plot. Then click on the asteroid to place the Var on the asteroid and click on two reference stars (check and 3 annotation). Then click on the > arrow button.

[han.k]

Documentation:
http://www.hnsky.org/astap#asteroid_magnitude

[han.k]

Download develioment version:
http://www.hnsky.org/astap#beta_version