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Observatory Code E17 (Leura)              Long    150d    20'     30"    Lat  -33d    42'    22"    Altitude 950m    Time UT+10h

Observatory Code E19 ( Kingsgrove)    Long    151d     5'     45"     Lat  -33d    56'    51"    Altitude 60m      Time: UT+10h

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System used and location  :

1. SCT 0.25m f/5.2 , CCD Camera ST9XE and 0.12m guidescope with ST402ME as autoguider; Location E19

2. SCT 0.35m f/5.8 (0.5x lumicon GEG focal reducer) , CCD camera ST8XME; Location E17

Brackets next to "Date Range" indicate the location and system used.

31 Euphrosyne Date range: 05/06 - 22/06 (1)

Period: 5.529h + 0.001h

Amplitude:0.10m + 0.01m

  Work in collaboration with Frederick Pilcher for spin/shape model contribution.
1729 Beryl Date range:03/05 - 23/06(1)

Period: 4.8888h + 0.0003h

Amplitude: 0.18m + 0.02m

  Selected from CALL website
2001 FE 90 Date Range: 01/07 - 03/07(1)

Period: 0.47713h + 0.00009h

Amplitude: 0.80m + 0.03m

  Initially prompted by Yurij Krugly from Kharkiv university. Later found to be a target (NEA) that the rest of the photometrist population has been following towards the end of June
2705 Wu Date Range: 28/07 - 11/09

Period: 150.51h + 0.08h

Amplitude: 1.2m + 0.1m

H=13.60: G=0.15: Dia=5.97: Albedo=0.18: Class =S

PA=13,4

LPAB=323: BPAB=-5

Asteroid selected from CALL website with no previous period determination done. Data were linked internally using Comp Star Selector feature in Canopus 9.5.0.10. Such a long period asteroid has high probability for showing a "tumbling"properties. (Harris 1994). The available data has shown that this target exhibited a Non principal axis rotation as defined in Pravec at al(2005)
2543 Machado Date range: 31/08/2007 - 27/09/2007

Period: 31.72 + 0.03h

Amplitude: 0.15m + 0.05m

H=11:Dia=34.82: Albedo=0.058: Class=C

PA=17.0

LPAB=8.1:BPAB=-13.2

 

Light curve data from 2007 is reprocessed with Canopus V9.5.0.10 and using Comp Star Selector feature to determine its nightly zero point. This was selected due to its low amplitude determined from last year reduction result. The 0.15m amplitude is relatively low for this longish period target resulting in this unambiguous result. The next opposition on 1st Jan 2010 and the following few apparitions will be a northern hemisphere target.
2965 Surikov Date range:09/08 - 18/08(1,2)

Period:9.061h + 0.003h

Amplitude:0.28m + 0.03m

H=13.60: G = 0.15: Dia=5.97 : Albedo =0.18: Class =S

PA = 9, 13

LPAB = 298 : BPAB = 2

PSABA selection
3034 Climenhaga

Date range:10/06 - 20/08(1)

P_1 :2.73757h + 0.00003h

P_2: 18.9540h + 0.0005h

Amplitude: 0.13m + 0.02m

H= 12.30 : G = 0.15 : Dia = 10.86 : Albedo = 0.18: Class =S:

PA = 29, 4,  6

LPAB= 309, 323 : BPAB = -6

 

PSABA selection. Secondary rotation period detected indicating the presence of a satellite where this secondary period is the rotation period of that satellite. Usually the satellite rotation period is synchronous with its orbital period. However currently no mutual events have been detected to confirm its existence.
3076 Garber      
3868 Mendoza

Date Range: 25/04 - 17/05(2)

Period: 2.7709h + 0.0003h

Amplitude: 0.05m + 0.05m

H = 13.00: G = 0.15: Dia = 7.87: Albedo =0.18: Class = S

PA = 5, 9

LPAB = 220: BPAB = 8

PSABA selectin. Binary discovery and announcement
4904 Makio Date Range: 05/03 - 21/03(1)

Period: 7.830h + 0.003h

Amplitude : 0.10m + 0.02m

H = 12.60 : G =0.15 : Dia= 9.46: Albedo = 0.18: Class = S

PA=9

LPAB = 162 : BPAB = -13

CALL Selection
19483 1998 HA 116 Date range: 30/01 - 05/02(2)

Period: 2.721h + 0.001h

Amplitude: 0.08m + 0.05m

H=13.7 : Dia=5.7 : Albedo 0.180 : Class =S

PA = 6

LPAB = 133: BPAB = -10

 
         
11116 1996 EK Date Range: 15/03 - 24/03(2)

Period: 4.401h + 0.002h

Amplitude: 0.06m + 0.02m

H =  14.2: G = 0.15: Dia = 4.53: Albedo= 0.18: Class = S

PA= 6, 11

LPAB= 168: BPAB= 4

In the same field of view as another target.
55760 1992 BL1