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Asteroid (9414) Masamimurakami, Tyrel Smith

Asteroid (9414) Masamimurakami

Asteroid (9414) Masamimurakami, Tyrel Smith

Asteroid (9414) Masamimurakami

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I captured this (bottom left corner) while shooting some test data on the new CDK14. The target is NGC2419 - The Intergalactic Wanderer, and this .gif is 30 frames at 3mins each for a total elapsed time of 90 minutes.  According to NASA's Small-Body Database, the object was discovered in 1995 Oct. 25 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi, and is approximately 12km in diameter.

I confirmed the object using MPChecker from minorplanetcenter.net, which generated the following output:The following objects, brighter than V = 24.0, were found in the 5.0-arcminute region around R.A. = 07 38 08.20, Decl. = +38 52 57.47 (J2000.0) on 2023 02 13.11 UT:
Object designation         R.A.      Decl.     V       Offsets     Motion/hr   Orbit  Further observations?
h m s ° ' " R.A. Decl. R.A. Decl. Comment (Elong/Decl/V at date 1)

(9414) Masamimurakami 07 38 20.8 +38 50 54 16.6 2.4E 2.1S 24- 1- 23o None needed at this time.
This was compared to the platesolve data show below from one of the frames, which showed the target fell within the fov.Image Plate Solver script version 5.6.6===============================================================================Referentiation matrix (world[ra,dec] = matrix * image[x,y]):-8.40773853e-05 +9.33131213e-08 +2.62632331e-01-8.92054860e-08 -8.40877360e-05 +1.75823398e-01WCS transformation ....... Thin plate splineControl points ........... 201Spline lengths ........... l:201 b:201 X:201 Y:201Projection ............... GnomonicProjection origin ........ [3126.014613 2087.635476] px -> [RA: 7 38 08.567 Dec: +38 52 57.43]Resolution ............... 0.303 arcsec/pxRotation ................. -0.066 degReference system ......... ICRSObservation start time ... 2023-02-13 03:21:12 UTCObservation end time ..... 2023-02-13 03:24:12 UTCFocal distance ........... 2562.15 mmPixel size ............... 3.76 umField of view ............ 31' 32.5" x 21' 4.1"Image center ............. RA: 7 38 08.567 Dec: +38 52 57.43 ex: +0.000088 px ey: -0.000249 pxImage bounds:top-left .............. RA: 7 39 29.710 Dec: +39 03 28.49 ex: -0.000052 px ey: -0.000654 pxtop-right ............. RA: 7 36 47.308 Dec: +39 03 26.32 ex: +0.000613 px ey: -0.002140 pxbottom-left ........... RA: 7 39 29.461 Dec: +38 42 24.66 ex: -0.000160 px ey: -0.000466 pxbottom-right .......... RA: 7 36 47.820 Dec: +38 42 22.96 ex: -0.000142 px ey: +0.004980 px

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