Great video, great software! This will revolutionize asteroid detection for amateurs and professionals maybe as well. The entire asteroidzoo project would have been obsolete if this kind of software was available back then. I'm going to check some of my old datasets and I'll spread the word!
Hi Leonid...are you planning any more comet discoveries in the near future..your fifth comet maybe this year.....just wondering what detection software you are using at ISON with your previous comet discoveries....
Raizal Mohammad Hi Raizal! I’m already had six comets :) This year I’m not observing. My telescope at NMSkies was sold. Perhaps, I will start new survey next year. About software. I used many software packages - PonPoint, Colitec, SkySift and my own processing pipeline. Now I upgrade it for using GPU power.
@@leonid.elenin Yes, Tycho works with multiple GPUs, which divides up the workload and reduces processing time. It can even do this across different machines in a compute cluster.
The first instrument was a 127mm refractor with FLI 16803 camera. It has a 3x3 degree field of view (9 square degrees). Then, for follow-up, a 0.5m telescope was used.
Hi Daniel, This is really impressive! So much so I decided to get your pro license and starting playing around with my data. One thing that came to mind while watching, and maybe I just missed it or are overlooking something, is if you go back to the object for a 2nd night, and it may be a few days or weeks later as shown in your video, the question is, how do you know where to target the scope to hopefully find the object again?
Hi David, glad you are finding Tycho useful! To recover an object, you would use the ephemeris information computed from the observations you generated on the first night. One way to generate such ephemeris is to paste those observations into the Find_Orb software, of which a modified version has been supplied to integrate with Tycho. There is also a new Session Planner module in Tycho (from the Tools menu) that can use this ephemeris information.
ok, you lost me when you moved to day two to confirm the previous nights observation. Unless I missed it, I did not hear mention of how you pointed your larger scope to the target. How did you know where it was on night two?
You can generate an ephemeris for an object using the Session planner module. This is available via Tools->Session Planner. Specify the desired start and stop range. Then, separately, navigate to Tools->Existing Observations and paste your observations of the object into the window. Click "Compute Orbit". Finally, on the orbit window that appears, navigate to Ephemeris->Attach to Session Planner.
Nice work.
Dude! That´s so interesting!! More of this!!!!
Please do more tutorials and keep updating your beautiful software...
Great video, great software! This will revolutionize asteroid detection for amateurs and professionals maybe as well. The entire asteroidzoo project would have been obsolete if this kind of software was available back then. I'm going to check some of my old datasets and I'll spread the word!
Thanks for the kind remarks. If you encounter any issues along the way, I am more than happy to help. Contact info is on the website.
Thanks for these videos!
Oh wow...you have given me a lot more hope that my little amateur scope at 190mm can find a faint mag asteroid....thank you😀
Hi Daniel! Amazing work! I see what you used OpenCL framework, so, Tycho can work with AMD GPUs?
Hi Leonid...are you planning any more comet discoveries in the near future..your fifth comet maybe this year.....just wondering what detection software you are using at ISON with your previous comet discoveries....
Thank you Leonid! Yes, Tycho can work with AMD GPUs.
Tycho Tracker thanks! And another question, do you test Tycho on multi-GPU configuration?
Raizal Mohammad Hi Raizal! I’m already had six comets :) This year I’m not observing. My telescope at NMSkies was sold. Perhaps, I will start new survey next year. About software. I used many software packages - PonPoint, Colitec, SkySift and my own processing pipeline. Now I upgrade it for using GPU power.
@@leonid.elenin Yes, Tycho works with multiple GPUs, which divides up the workload and reduces processing time. It can even do this across different machines in a compute cluster.
What is the imaging setup used for the data presented in this video ? Camera ? Telescope ?
The first instrument was a 127mm refractor with FLI 16803 camera. It has a 3x3 degree field of view (9 square degrees). Then, for follow-up, a 0.5m telescope was used.
Hi Daniel, This is really impressive! So much so I decided to get your pro license and starting playing around with my data. One thing that came to mind while watching, and maybe I just missed it or are overlooking something, is if you go back to the object for a 2nd night, and it may be a few days or weeks later as shown in your video, the question is, how do you know where to target the scope to hopefully find the object again?
Hi David, glad you are finding Tycho useful! To recover an object, you would use the ephemeris information computed from the observations you generated on the first night. One way to generate such ephemeris is to paste those observations into the Find_Orb software, of which a modified version has been supplied to integrate with Tycho. There is also a new Session Planner module in Tycho (from the Tools menu) that can use this ephemeris information.
ok, you lost me when you moved to day two to confirm the previous nights observation. Unless I missed it, I did not hear mention of how you pointed your larger scope to the target. How did you know where it was on night two?
You can generate an ephemeris for an object using the Session planner module. This is available via Tools->Session Planner. Specify the desired start and stop range. Then, separately, navigate to Tools->Existing Observations and paste your observations of the object into the window. Click "Compute Orbit". Finally, on the orbit window that appears, navigate to Ephemeris->Attach to Session Planner.
thanks!
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