Asteroid (71832) 2000 UQ63 (David Koslicki)

Asteroid (71832) 2000 UQ63

I got so excited from imaging my first asteroid (seen in my previous upload to astrobin), that I decided to stack most all my images using the max setting to see if I could catch any more. Sure enough, in the Leo Triplet again, I noticed an extremely faint fuzzy line (see first revision). Oddly enough, even though ASTAP didn't annotate this one, using the minorplanetcenter.net neocheck tool, I confirmed that this is indeed the asteroid (71832) 2000 UQ63. The second revision shows what this looks like when I register on this object. For reference, the galaxy you can see in the revisions is the Hamburger Galaxy (NGC 3628 ).

The asteroid (71832) 2000 UQ63 appears to be lacking even an English wikipedia page, but what I could gather from the small body database lookup tool, it was first discovered in the year 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro. It's listed at 14.73 absolute magnitude. I'm now tempted to go back through the mountains of subs I have hunting for more of these!

For the record, this is a 2.826 km diameter, main belt asteroid observed on Feb. 9th, 2022 around 10pm (10:15:47-11:10:31) in UTC-4. The observation method was manual (stacking with AstroPixelProcessor using the "max" integration method).

Also, if anyone has tips to make this process more automated, and/or how to get into searching for new asteroids (or ones for which more observations are needed), I'd welcome any input!

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Title: Raw stack, max integration method

Description: This is the stack when integrated using the maximum setting. You can see the hot pixel clusters due to dithering up near the top of the image.

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Title: Registration centered on asteroid

Description: This is using the "comet registration" method of AstroPixelProcessor.

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