Observing Asteroids

This was an undergraduate observing project carried out with PNU Skyship, an astronomy club at Pusan National University. We used the 0.7 m PlaneWave CDK700 telescope at the Miryang Arirang Astronomical Observatory (MAAO) — IAU MPC observatory code P71 — to capture follow-up images of already numbered asteroids.

My role was the club's observation lead: I helped plan observation runs and operate the telescope during the sessions. Heavy data analysis such as orbit determination or N-body propagation was not part of this project. The point of the project was the hands-on experience of pointing a 0.7 m telescope at a known asteroid and actually catching it on the CCD, at an undergraduate level.