Sedna

[Evil Dr Ganymede]

Dang. I envy you, Andrea - I'd love to discover just one asteroid!

And for what it's worth, I fully support what you do. Spaceguard is essential IMO, and it really needs more people working on it.

[t00fri]

Hi Andrea,

indeed, this is good reason for being proud and once again demonstrates the amazing possibilities that exist for serious collaboration of amateurs and pros in this field!

I envy you for your great observatory and the beautiful landscape it is embedded in!!

In a couple of weeks, I shall be flying to Roma (Easter), and so at least will be able to enjoy the weather and the landscape (...and the food;-))

Bye Fridger

[ANDREA]

Dang. I envy you, Andrea - I'd love to discover just one asteroid! And for what it's worth, I fully support what you do. Spaceguard is essential IMO, and it really needs more people working on it.

No Evil, please don't envy me.
Believe me, it's a hard and long work, hours and hours looking feeble images on monitor screen, in search of that little tiny spot that could be, but could only, the object you are searching for.
And when you think you found it, long time using softwares that measure its position with the maximum possible accuracy, and later on, as final attempt, to check with CODES if its position is according to the foreseen one.
Only at this moment you have the knowledgae that you didn't waste your time, so you send immediately the results to MPC, receiving sometimes (it happened) a message saying that, alas, the same results had been submitted to MPC from another resercher just minutes before your ones, so... you lost!
Anyhow, will be better next time, and we start again and again.
It's only the passion for hunting asteroids that supports our fatigue, believe me.
Thank you for your compliments, very appreciated.
By

Andrea

[ANDREA]

Hi Andrea, indeed, this is good reason for being proud and once again demonstrates the amazing possibilities that exist for serious collaboration of amateurs and pros in this field! I envy you for your great observatory and the beautiful landscape it is embedded in!! In a couple of weeks, I shall be flying to Roma (Easter), and so at least will be able to enjoy the weather and the landscape (...and the food;-)) Bye Fridger

Hello Fridger, thank you for your kind words.
When you'll be in Rome, please call me at the phone I'm sending you by e-mail, I'll be happy to meet you and offer you a good Italian coffee.
By

Andrea

[TERRIER]

Here's a link for todays (June 4th) "Picture of the Day" at the NASA website.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040604.html

It's an interesting surface texture !