As already suggested several times on this list, one is invited to check for known asteroids when dealing with "suspect stars". You can easily perform this task using the MP-Cheker facility provided by the Minor Planet Center at http://scully.harvard.edu/~cgi/CheckMP Cheers, Gianluca Andreas Berthold wrote: > > Hello Friends ! > > This Star on the Foto is the Asteroid with Nr. 386 (Siegena) and 11.8 mag. > > best regards from Vienna > > Andreas Berthold > > Toni Scarmato schrieb: > > > Dear all, > > > > this is a preliminary information about a suspect star observed on two > > images > > Images taken at 2002 02 14.87 with a 200 mm lens f/3.5 on a 35 mm film NPH > > 400, > > exposure 3 minutes, that show the suspect star in Hydra. > > The star is located at position AR 08 46 27.583+-0.52 decl +02 15 > > 10.24+-5.27 m1=12.621+-0.33 > > near the star GSC 216:1 > > The astrometric measures made with Astroart and USNO A2 catalog seem show > > that the star > > not can to be identified whit the nonstar > > GSC 216:1451 AR 08 46 29.19 decl +02 14 26.8 m1=15.2/0.4 = USNO A2 08 46 > > 29.275 +02 14 27.78 m1=14.30+-0.25 > > > > On the other hand the the DSS1, DSS2 and USNO A2 catalog non show brigth > > star at position pointed > > and Megastar program not show know asteroids at position pointed. > > > > At this address http://digilander.iol.it/infosis/homepage/suspectstar.html > > you can see the images. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Toni scarmato -- *********************************************************************** * Gianluca Masi "Two things fill the soul * * Via Madonna de Loco, 47 with awe and reverence [...]: * * 03023 Ceccano (FR) the starry sky above me and * * ITALY the moral law within me" * * e-mail: gianmasi@fr.flashnet.it * * web: http://vsnet.bellatrixobservatory.org I. Kant * * Minor Planet Center Obs. Code: 470 - Ceccano * * Center for Backyard Astrophysics - Italy * * VSNET Collaboration Team member * * CCD-astrometry-photometry@egroup.com mailing-list moderator * ***********************************************************************