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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

                

Welcome!!  All-India Asteroid Search Campaign

Image sets from July 26^th and 30^th are available in  a few of the school folders.  The skies are bright with the full Moon and the 32" telescope at the ARI Observatory is being serviced.  When image sets are available, they will be uploaded immediately into the school folders.

 

IASC sponsors the NASA WISE Asteroid Search Campaign as part of the public outreach program for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission launched in December 2009. 

 

It is important that you understand how to use Astrometrica, identify true and false signatures (i.e., not all moving things are asteroids), and prepare a clean and accurate MPC report.  If you can do these things, your students will be successful in discovering new Main Belt asteroids and making important near-Earth object observations.

 

For 2010 the forthcoming IASC search campaign dates are the following:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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If your school would like to participate in the IASC search campaigns, contact the IASC Director, Dr. J. Patrick Miller by email at iascsearch@hsutx.edu.  Campaigns usually fill up 90 days prior to their starting date.

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32" Prime Focus Telescope
Astronomical Research Institute

MPC Orbital Database
July 19, 2010 (02:30 UT).

 

The International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) is an educational outreach program

for high schools and colleges, provided at no cost to the participating schools.

 

IASC (pronounced “Isaac”) is a collaboration of:

 

·  Hardin-Simmons University (Abilene, TX)

·  Lawrence Hall of Science (University of California, Berkeley)

·  Astronomical Research Institute (Westfield, IL)

·  Global Hands-On Universe Association (Lisbon, Portugal)

·  Sierra Stars Observatory Network (Markleeville, CA)

·  Tarleton State University (Stephenville, TX)

·  NASA Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (Space Sciences Laboratory)

·  Faulkes Telescopes Project (Wales)

·  Astrometrica (H. Raab, Austria)

WELCOME TO THE

INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL SEARCH COLLABORATION

ARI Observatory Cloud Coverage

24"Nighthawk CC06 Telescope Sierra Stars Observatory

 

 

 

15" Rigel  OMI Telescope    Sierra Stars Observatory

 

 

 

24" Prime Focus Telescope
Astronomical Research Institute