SFA Observatory's Follow-Up Page

We thank Gareth Williams of the MPC for providing this web page template and service. Other observers also have their own follow-up pages as well. With this web page you can get ephemerids of some asteroids discovered or rediscovered at the SFA Observatory. The ephemerides are given by the Minor Planet Center (MPC).

The following objects are available: Options:

By default, ephemerides are geocentric, begin now and are for 20 days at 1 day intervals. The desired start date for the ephemeris should be entered in YYYY MM DD format, e.g., 1998 July 19 = 1998 07 19. Note that these ephemerides are intended to assist current observations only.

Start date for ephemerides: Number of dates to output

Ephemeris interval: Ephemeris units: days hours

Observatory code:

Display positions in: truncated sexagesimal or full sexagesimal or decimal units

Display motions as: "/min "/hr °/day

Total motion and direction Separate R.A. and Decl. motions

Format for elements output:

none;
MPC 1-line;
MPC 8-line;
Show residuals blocks.
SkyMap (SkyMap Software);
Guide (Project Pluto);
xephem (E. Downey);
Home Planet (J. Walker);
MyStars! (Relative Data Products);
TheSky (Software Bisque);
Starry Night (Sienna Software);
Deep Space (D. S. Chandler);
PC-TCS (D. Harvey);
Earth Centered Universe (Nova Astronomics);
Dance of the Planets (ARC);
MegaStar V4.x (E.L.B. Software);
SkyChart 2000.0 (Southern Stars Software);
Voyager II (Carina Software);
SkyTools (CapellaSoft);
Autostar (Meade Instruments);

If you select 8-line MPC format the elements will be displayed with the ephemerides. If you select any format other than 8-line MPC format, only the elements are returned. In such cases your browser should download the elements file and save it to your local disk.

Dan Bruton
astro@sfasu.edu
Minor Planet Research