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Astrometry with PRAIA

Assafin, M.

PRAIA - Package for the Reduction of Astronomical Images Automatically - is a suite of astrometric and photometric tasks designed to cope with huge amounts of heterogeneous observations with fast processing, no human intervention, minimum parameterization and yet maximum possible accuracy and precision. It is the main tool used to analyse astronom…

Physical properties of the slow-rotating near-Earth asteroid (2059) Baboquivari from one apparition

Kim, Myung-Jin; Lee, Hee-Jae; Erece, Orhan +6 more

In this study, we carried out photometric, spectroscopic, and for the first time, polarimetric observations of the Amor-type near-Earth asteroid (2059) Baboquivari. Our findings represent the first reliable determination of Baboquivari's physical properties. We used data from a 1m-class telescope (T100) along with ALCDEF data for photometric analy…

New reduction of old glass astronomical plates of Pallas and Vesta in 1956-1994 based on Gaia DR3 catalogue

Ehgamberdiev, Sh. A.; Dong, S.; Yu, Y. +9 more

Through a key project for intergovernmental international cooperation between Uzbekistan and China, a group of old glass astronomical plates of Pallas and Vesta taken by the TAS033 telescope at Tashkent observation site of Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute in 1956-1994 have been digitized using the digitizer with sub-micrometer measuring precision …