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Getting Stellar Magnitudes from SEO images

April 2, 2025April 26, 2025 ctkrueger

  The objective of this tutorial is to provide a straightforward method for obtaining magnitudes and fluxes of photon sources in SEO observations and data files. Requirements A .FITS file […]

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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to SEO Observing by Katya Gozman

June 12, 2023June 12, 2023 apagul

Contents Is the weather good for observing? How do I find objects to observe or what’s up in the sky right now? Stellarium Telescopius Check: Have you requested time? What […]

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Asteroid Tracking

March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 apagul
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Using the Stone Edge Graphical User Interface (GUI)

July 15, 2016February 9, 2017 apagul

Using the Graphical User Interface (GUI) Before you Begin Special precautions are taken to protect the Stone Edge Observatory servers from unauthorized contact.  A tunnel to the observatory needs to […]

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Quick Start Guide to Using the Command Line

July 15, 2016April 8, 2017 apagul

This is fun in other ways and if you ever want to watch online, we can share this with you via Skype or another collaboration tool. The notes here are […]

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Asteroid Series 1: Choosing an Asteroid to Image

July 15, 2016July 15, 2016 apagul

Choosing an Asteroid to Image Targets within our solar system can be tricky to image.  Unlike stars and galaxies that are much further away, asteroids move relative to the background. […]

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Asteroid Series 2: What’s Observable?

July 15, 2016August 3, 2016 apagul

What’s Observable Reading the observable object charts By following the instructions in Asteroid Series 1,  a page of data related to your query are returned.         Keeping […]

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Asteroid Series 3: Generating an Ephemeris for Asteroids

July 15, 2016July 15, 2016 apagul

Generating an Ephemeris for Asteroids Moving from “What’s Observable” to “Horizons” By following the directions in Asteroid Series 2, a list of possible targets was generated for your viewing session.  […]

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