Information on Service 'FAI Asteroid Observation Log'

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This table is a preview catalog of asteroid observations carried out by the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute (FAI) as part of our ongoing contribution to planetary defense and space situational awareness. The observations are regularly reported to the Minor Planet Center (https://minorplanetcenter.net/).

The dataset includes the following fields:

This is an overview table. For more details about our space situational awareness activities, please visit our SSA portal: https://ssa.fai.kz/.

For questions or data reuse requests, please contact us at vo[at]fai.kz.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this service's resource, see Information on resource 'FAI Asteroid Observation Log'

Overview

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This service is published as follows:

local means it is listed on our front page, ivo_managed means it has a record in the VO registry.

Input Fields

The following fields are available to provide input to the service (with some renderers, some of these fields may be unavailable):

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
obs_date Obs Date Observation date (ISO format DD-MM-YYYY) N/A time.date;obs
target Target Asteroid designation or provisional ID N/A meta.id;src

Default Output Fields

The following fields are contained in the output by default. More fields may be available for selection; these would be given below in the VOTable output fields.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
bin Bin Detector binning N/A instr.detector.bin
exptime Exp. Exposure time in seconds s time.duration;obs.exposure
filter Filter Filter used during observation N/A instr.filter
nframes Frames Number of frames per object N/A meta.number;obs
notes Notes Additional comments N/A N/A
obs_date Obs Date Observation date (ISO format DD-MM-YYYY) N/A time.date;obs
page Page Page number in MPC PDF N/A N/A
reference MPC Ref. URL to Minor Planet Center report PDF N/A meta.ref.url
target Target Asteroid designation or provisional ID N/A meta.id;src

VOTable Output Fields

The following fields are available in VOTable output. The verbosity level is a number intended to represent the relative importance of the field on a scale of 1 to 30. The services take a VERB argument. A field is included in the output if their verbosity level is less or equal VERB*10.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD Verb. Level
obs_date Obs Date Observation date (ISO format DD-MM-YYYY) N/A time.date;obs 1
target Target Asteroid designation or provisional ID N/A meta.id;src 1
filter Filter Filter used during observation N/A instr.filter 1
exptime Exp. Exposure time in seconds s time.duration;obs.exposure 1
bin Bin Detector binning N/A instr.detector.bin 5
nframes Frames Number of frames per object N/A meta.number;obs 5
reference MPC Ref. URL to Minor Planet Center report PDF N/A meta.ref.url 5
page Page Page number in MPC PDF N/A N/A 10
notes Notes Additional comments N/A N/A 10

Citation Info

VOResource XML (that's something exclusively for VO nerds)