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		The telescope is used for the Siding Spring Survey, the southern hemisphere counterpart to UA's Catalina Sky Survey.
		The new survey is a joint collaboration between the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and ANU's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
		Surveys often have to suspend their NEA searches and spend observing time confirming NEAs, or they risk losing them altogether because follow-up observations were made too late, he added.
	uanews.org /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/4/wa/SRStoryDetails?ArticleID=8916 (943 words)

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		The "Catalina Sky Survey" currently consists of a consortium of 3 cooperating surveys: the original Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), the Siding Springs Survey (SSS) and the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLSS).
		The Catalina Sky Survey began operation in April 1998 with the installation of a single-channel, thermoelectrically cooled, thick 4K x 4K CCD to the modified 0.4-/0.6-m Catalina Schmidt telescope.
		As an example of the capabilities of this system, the large CSS binary PHA 2003 YT1 was observed during close approach in early May of 2004, demonstrating the utility of obtaining a suite of data that included light curves and ECAS colors.
	www.lpl.arizona.edu /css/css_facilities.html (1592 words)

	Observatory Down Under to Help Search for Killer Asteroids
		As a result, a handful of near-Earth asteroid sky surveys are tracking the tumbling rocks to identify those whose paths through space could send them hurtling into the Earth.
		Although these detailed surveys are tracking many asteroids, the Earth is still at risk of being blindsided by a careening asteroid uppercut from the south.
		The search will be patterned on the Catalina Sky Survey, an asteroid watch operated by astronomers at the University of Arizona using a 16-inch telescope in the Santa Catalina mountains near Tucson.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/aussie_asteroids.htm (537 words)

	The Planetary Society Headline for: 05/13/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Catalina Sky Survey is unusual in that program observers hunt for Earth- orbit crossing asteroids and comets above the plane of the ecliptic, or the plane in which the planets revolve.
		The Catalina telescope now electronically images a 3 x 3-degree field of view, or a square patch of sky equivalent to six lunar diameters on a side.
		The Catalina Schmidt telescope is available to the sky survey team most of the time, so only the bright moon limits observing time, Larson added.
	ww.planetary.org /html/news/articlearchive/headlines/1998/headln-051398.html (1312 words)

	Astronomy & Space
		The Catalina Sky Survey, based at the University of Arizona, is a astronomical survey focused on the discovery and study of Near Earth Asteroids and Comets.
		DEep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky DENIS will be a complete deep near infrared survey of the southern sky, with the objective to provide full coverage in 2 near infrared bands (J at 1.25 micron and K at 2.2 micron) and one optical band.
		New digital sky survey uncovers rare celestial objects "Mystery Object" update: New infrared spectrum from the Keck telescope show it to be a peculiar BAL Quasar at a redshift of 1.2.
	www.msnusers.com /AstronomySpace/skysurveys.msnw (585 words)

	Comet Put On List Of Potential Earth Impactors
		Comet Catalina was found by the Catalina Sky Survey, one of the six current, large-scale and automated search programmes for near-Earth asteroids.
		Its size is estimated at 980 metres, but Steve Chesley of JPL told New Scientist that the size determination is based on the assumption it is a dark-bodied asteroid, and so the bright coma of a comet would cause the estimate to be high.
		On 26 May, JPL's unique orbital calculation software determined that Comet Catalina was on what could possibly be a collision course with Earth, though the odds of such an impact were small: just 1 chance in 300,000 of a strike on June 11, 2085.
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	FAQs About NEO Impacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Several teams of astronomers worldwide are surveying the sky with electronic cameras to find NEOs, but the total effort involves fewer than 100 people.
		The purpose of the Spaceguard Survey is not to improve these statistical estimates, but to find any individual rock that may be on a collision course.
		In 1998 NASA formally initiated the Spaceguard Survey by adopting the objective of finding 90% of the NEAs larger than 1 km diameter within the next decade (that is, before the end of 2008).
	nai.arc.nasa.gov /impact/intro_faq.cfm (1365 words)

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		CSS had a -12 second error on all images due to improper coding of the start time in the FITS header.
		Also, given the sky coverage and sheer number of professional surveys in action, it is very likely that your hard work will simply be obviated the next night by a survey.
		CSS, E12, and LONEOS all take FOUR (4) images of each field, with intervals varying from 20 - 60 minutes from first to last image.
	www.tass-survey.org /richmond/answers/astrom.howto (1251 words)

	Siding Spring Survey
		It is the southern hemisphere counterpart of the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) located in the Santa Catalina Mountains on Mt Bigelow, near Tucson, Arizona, USA.
		The mission of the Siding Spring Survey is to contribute to the inventory of near-earth objects (NEOs), or more specifically, the potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and comets (PHOs) that may pose a threat of impact and thus harm to civilization.
		However, the team at the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) are responsible for the maintainance of the software and were heavily involved in the initial setup.
	msowww.anu.edu.au /%7Ermn/index.htm (712 words)

	[36.04] The CSS and SSS NEO surveys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After extensive refurbishment, the Catalina Schmidt is back on line and the Catalina Sky Survey for NEOs has resumed.
		The Siding Spring Survey is a southern hemisphere component based upon the modified 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt to use the same type of camera, support computers, and software.
		New to the CSS is the Mt. Lemmon 1.5-m which has been upgraded with computer control and a prime focus camera.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v35n4/dps2003/103.htm (272 words)

	Catalina Sky Survey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catalina Sky Survey is a project to discover comets and asteroids, and to search for near-earth objects.
		The CSS team is headed by Steve Larson of the Lunar and Planetary Lab of the University of Arizona.
		This page was last modified 15:49, 5 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catalina_Sky_Survey (70 words)

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		comet in the course of the Spacewatch survey.
		Skiff (Lowell Observatory) reports the discovery of a new comet in the course of the LONEOS survey on Sep. 29, 2005.
		New Discovery!: An apparently asteroidal object discovered already on Mar. 27, 2004, by the LINEAR survey has been found to be cometary by C. Hergenrother (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) in images taken on May 19, and 20, 2004, at Catalina.
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		Catalina Sky Survey at the Lunar and Planetary Lab of the University of Arizona has been carrying out "a systematic survey of the near-opposition sky at ecliptic latitudes 30 to 60 degrees on a monthly basis with the f/3 0.41m University of Arizona Catalina Schmidt.
		Sky is Falling by George H. Lenz discusses the energy of impactors, the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact, and offers a short bibliography.
		TASS, The Amateur Sky Survey "hopes to construct low-cost drift-scan cameras and distribute them to sites around the world; the idea is to monitor bright objects across a large section of the sky." This includes NEOs.
	www.pibburns.com /catastro/impacts.htm (6417 words)

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		Although there is officially still no Spaceguard Survey as an internationally agreed NEO search program, there exist several such programs, mainly in the U.S.A., which continuously scan the skies for objects with unusual apparent motion.
		The currently most prolific NEO search programs are LINEAR, Spacewatch, Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), and LONEOS, (as well as NEAT, which is not operational at the moment) - all based in the U.S. Minor contributions are (or were) made by the Beijing Astronomical Observatory NEO Program, ODAS, and at Siding Spring in Australia.
		The goal of the Spaceguard Survey is to determine the extent of the current NEO population, and its size distribution, from which estimates of the impact hazard posed can be made from collision probability considerations.
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		This instrument is used for the Siding Spring Survey, the Southern Hemisphere counterpart of UA's Catalina Sky Survey.
		The Catalina telescope, which Larson and his team upgraded again in May 2000, features new optics that give it a 69 centimetre (27-inch) aperture and a new, more sensitive camera.
		Beautiful pictures of the night sky can be obtained with a simple camera and tripod before tackling more difficult projects, such as guided astrophotography through the telescope and CCD imaging.
	www.astronomynow.com /news/040406_neo_south.shtml (1219 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Asteroid - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Up until 1998, asteroids were discovered by a four-step process.
		First, a region of the sky was photographed by a wide-field telescope.
		Pairs of photographs were taken, typically one hour apart.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/as/Asteroid (1073 words)

	UFO Sightings Around The World
		It was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona and confirmed early by Robert Hutsebaut of Brussels, Belgium.
		The group's recently released 2003 survey found that a record 673 reports of unidentified objects were made to various organizations and investigators in Canada.
		I was looking into the sky at the Confederation driving range watching a ball when I saw the first object moving across the sky at a high rate of speed.
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	Faint Near-Earth Asteroids and Comets
		Program observers Spahr and Hergenrother made the Bigelow survey's most famous discovery, a near-Earth asteroid 200 meters in diameter, or roughly four times the size of the impactor that produced Meteor Crater, Ariz., that missed Earth by about 280,000 miles on May 19, 1996.
		The Catalina Sky Survey is unusual in that program observers hunt for Earth-orbit crossing asteroids and comets above the plane of the ecliptic, or the plane in which the planets revolve.
		The Catalina telescope now electronically images a 3x3-degree field of view, or a square patch of sky equivalent to six lunar diameters on a side.
	www.xs4all.nl /~carlkop/bigelow.html (850 words)

	Dec. '04 stack 2, Major News about Minor Objects
		Lemmon Survey: MPEC 2004-Y27 today announced the discovery of 2004 YK1, but the object is less interesting than the discoverer — the "Mt. Lemmon Survey" in Arizona, north of Tucson.
		The Catalina Sky Survey Facilities page tells that "we have completed upgrades to the Mt. Lemmon 1.5-m reflector needed to support deeper survey, follow-up, and physical characterization programs...
		This kilometer-size object was discovered last month by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona and was listed with impact solutions from 12 to 14 November.
	www.hohmanntransfer.com /mn/0412/stak2.htm (5022 words)

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		The southern survey will be patterned after the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona, which successfully refurbished a similar telescope near Tucson, Arizona.
		The CSS team members use the 42-cm (16-inch) UA Catalina Schmidt telescope on Mount Bigelow in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson in their search.
		The telescope is capable of finding objects as faint as 20th magnitude, close to the sky background level generated by scattered city light and auroral glow that brightens Earth's upper atmosphere.
	info.anu.edu.au /mac/Media/Media_Releases/_1999/asteroids.html (426 words)

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		The Catalina Sky Survey, a consortium of three cooperating surveys: the original Catalina Sky Survey and the Mount Lemmon Sky Survey in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, and the Siding Spring Survey near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia.
		The three surveys have been monitoring the Tempel 1 comet and will observe during impact from both the northern and southern hemispheres.
		The 25-year-old Spacewatch project is the pioneering comet-and-asteroid survey, and another source of top comet and asteroid experts.
	uanews.org /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=11340 (1361 words)

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		Mueller reports her discovery of a supernova (mag about 18.5) on a red plate taken on Nov. 2 UT by K. Rykoski and herself with the 1.2-m Oschin Schmidt Telescope in the course of the Palomar Outer Solar System Ecliptic Survey.
		There is no object at the position of SN 1999es on the Digitized Sky Survey or on a red plate from the second Palomar Sky Survey.
		Hergenrother, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, reports the discovery of another comet by the Catalina Sky Survey.
	www.theastronomer.org /tacirc/1999/e1471.txt (302 words)

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		Once each separate survey is internally optimized and once metrics have been established for each survey, then monthly sky coverage could be effectively divided up among the various surveys.
		Current survey efforts are posting the sky areas that they covered the night before and this seems to be helping the plan to coordinate the total effort.
		As the separate survey efforts optimize their own techniques, and total accessible sky coverage goes to deeper limiting magnitudes, the issue of follow-up observations becomes more important.
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	Astronomical Headlines
		P/2004 FY Discovery as apparently asteroidal in course of the LINEAR survey, found to be cometary later elsewhere.
		Discovery in course of Catalina Survey (reported asteroidal by them, found to be cometary elsewhere).
		Discovery as apparently asteroidal in course of Catalina Sky Survey; discovered independently later as a comet by the NEAT survey.
	cfa-www.harvard.edu /iau/Headlines.html (1162 words)

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		Increasing light pollution from Canberra led to its relocation to Siding Spring, near Coonabarabran in New South Wales, in the late 1982.
		Both CSS and SSS telescopes can detect objects as faint as 20th magnitude, close to sky background level generated by scattered city light and auroral glow that brightens Earth=B9s upper atmosphere.
		The astronauts from space shuttle Discovery's return to flight mission recently paid a visit to Japan, the homeland of mission specialist Souichi Noguchi, and were treated to a grand parade.
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	Astronomy & Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The STScI Digitized Sky Survey NOTE: This page should not be used to obtain target coordinates for HST Phase 2 proposals.
		Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) Images of NGC Objects Unless otherwise noted, all images of NGC objects referenced on this web page are covered by the DSS Acknowledgement and the DSS Copyright Notice.
		Next Generation Sky Survey Science Objectives NGSS will provide an all-sky survey from 3.5 to 25 microns up to 1000 times more sensitive than the IRAS survey.
	groups.msn.com /AstronomySpace/skysurveys.msnw (585 words)

	Arizona, Australia And Asteroids
		The southern survey will be patterned after the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) that Larson and his team conduct from Mount Bigelow in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson using the recently refurbished 42 cm (16-inch) UA Catalina Schmidt telescope.
		Larson and others on the CSS team are completing the major NASA-funded upgrade of the UA Catalina Schmidt telescope they began in 1997.
		The Catalina telescope has a 3x3-degree field of view, or a square patch of sky equivalent to six lunar diameters on a side.
	www.terradaily.com /news/spaceguard-99f.html (448 words)

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