Veil Nebula 31 May 08

Seems there were no minor planets in the vicinity. However, the fit order for your image (quality of fit) wasn't great. But the co-ordinates of the object are pretty close in the line below beginning "JOM001". The Julian date is correct. For the purposes of MPC identification, I used J65.

I didn't check against comets yet...





Here are the results of your search(es) in the requested field(s):
No known minor planets, brighter than V = 18, were found in the 50.0-arcminute region around the following observation:

JOM001 C2009 05 31.02222 20 46 06.59 +30 35 14.3 15.2 C J65

Number of objects checked = 433977

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johnomahony wrote:

it was taken at 00.35am on the 31st May 09

Sorry - should have asked - was that the local time or UTC? I'm assuming it was local time...

Local time Dave

John

OK. I corrected for the time. Here is the Object time and location (UTC and XXX is the location as you gave it. I've assumed 68.0m above sea level.):

JOM001 C2009 05 30.98056 20 46 06.53 +30 35 14.5 15.8 C XXX

Astrometrica is showing no minor planets at these co-ordinates. MPChecker is showing nothing either (see below). I checked TheSky6 pro - nothing there.

The only niggle I have is comets. I *think* I imported them correctly into TheSky but I may not have done. I don't do comets Perhaps there are others here who would know how to check? Would Heavens-Above do this?

Notwithstanding that, the odject's JD and location are as outlined in the MPC line above ending XXX. It was about mag 16.

Dave






Here are the results of your search(es) in the requested field(s):
No known minor planets, brighter than V = 18, were found in the 50.0-arcminute region around R.A. = 20 46 06.53, Decl. = +30 35 14.5 (J2000.0) on 2009 05 23.50 UT.

Number of objects checked = 433977

As a follow up, another option is to see if anyone took images around the same time as you (give or take a day or two). That would help to create an orbit that might help in recovering the object.

Failing all of that, I can chance my arm with the MPML folks and see if they can help. But they can be a tetchy bunch

If anyone has anything to add (other observatories???) please do so. This is interesting.

The CLS filter tends to through up green fuzzy reflections with DSLR images which I have seen on on other forums astrochat.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10919 . This may be another example.