Table information for 'asteroids_obs_tab.main'

General

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Resource Description:

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 table's resource, see Information on resource 'FAI Asteroid Observation Log'

Citing this table

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:asteroids_obs_ta,
  year=2025,
  title={{FAI} Asteroid Observation Log},
  author={Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute},
  url={https://dachs.fai.kz/tableinfo/asteroids_obs_tab.main},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {FAI} archives}
}

Columns

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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

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