NEO Planner, Planning the observation night for comets, NEO and NEOCP objects

IAU codes: B82 Maidbronn (retired) and K87 Dettelbach Vineyard Observatory

K87 Dettelbach Vineyard Observatory with old equipment — (C) Copyright: Photo montage performed by Bernhard Häusler, Germany
Credit of the comet image of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM (C) CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
and ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

Don't waste time planning the night session and focus on the evaluation.

You proudly call an IAU Observatory Code your own and have perhaps long since lost the motivation for the fascinating observation and tracking of NEO and comets? Or are you observing objects in the solar system with a remote telescope? Then this page has the solution for your enormous motivation boost for active amateur work and the use of your equipment for research.

Internal links:
Introduction to NEO Planner Imprint

The following image shows the Execute Search screen triggered by the "S" function in the Revise Planning screen.
The planned path of a NEOCP object including its 1-sigma and full range deviations is shown as squares determined from Scout API data.

Some basics and the mathematical highlight of my life:

The difference between two integer magnitudes of Stars means a reduction or increase in brightness of 2.512 times as is well known.
The formula for exponential growth or decay is then 2.512^difference.
Where the difference is the positive or negative difference between the determined sky background of any observatory and my reference value of K87 Dettelbach Vineyard Observatory.
It took me three desperate days to figure out this formula through my own thoughts. After finding the right formula, I was rewarded with ecstatic shouts of "Eureka!" and was able to begin programming NEO Planner.

Details on the calculation methods for the necessary number of images of objects in the solar system for each observatory in the world can be found here.

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