Bernhard's comets and asteroids IAU codes: B82 Maidbronn (retired) and K87 Dettelbach Vineyard Observatory
(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...
A warm welcome to all friends of comets and minor planets!
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?
Then this page has the solution for your enormous motivation boost
for active amateur work and the use of your equipment for research.
Over
14,000 individual measurements of more than 2000 Near Earth Objects on
K87
Dettelbach Vineyard Observatory since 2017.
The following image shows the Execute Search Window triggered by the "S"
function in the Revise Planning Window.
The planned path of a NEOCP object including its 1-sigma and
full range deviations is shown as
ellipses determined from
Scout API
data.
Illustration of the path of an object in NEO Planner: Leave nothing to chance anymore, but check the paths of each object before the session.
NEO Planner is for free, code-protected and works for all IAU stations worldwide.
Currently registered stations (64):
104, 215, 221, 227, 637, 958, B50,
B67, B72, C23, C95, D28,
D43, D46, D63, D69, D99, E89, G04,
G15, G19, J22, J69, K19, K35, K55, K63, K74, K83, K87, K97, L04, L40, L63, L65,
L81, L90, M18,
M19, M26, M29, M44, M45, M49, M58, M59, M61, M62, Q20, R86, R88, U52, U93, U94,
V42, W24,
W42,
W50,
X06,
X08,
X09,
X93,
Y88,
Z28
(Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Chile, Croatia, Germany, France, Italy, Namibia,
New Zealand, Romania,
Spain, Switzerland,
United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, U.S.A.)
Amateur or professional observers are welcome to use NEO Planner. Current version: V5.7.4 (July 4, 2025)
NEO Planner is able to calculate the exposure times, the
required number of exposures and the positions of currently observable comets,
NEO and NEOCP objects
on the basis of MPC, JPL Horizons and JPL Scout data and
and bring them in a time sequence for each location and
for any equipment.
From version
5 on, airmass and lunar sky brightness are also taken into account.
In addition, NEO Planner automatically monitors the NEOCP
and provides the user with important current changes, both visually and, if
desired, acoustically.
NEO Planner can work with both Astrometrica and Tycho
and provides scripts for automatic night
session control for both TheSky X (Orchestrate) and
N.I.N.A (XML + JSON).
If desired, the planning and ephemeris can be uploaded to
a website to be followed from any location and browser.
An internal sniping tool enables timer controlled hard
copies of the screen and the viewing of the night
sessions via the website.
The Integration of NEO Planner into the ASCOM based Nighttime
Imaging 'N' Astronomy program
N.I.N.A. by Stefan
Berg about XML and JSON formats
enables the fully automatic observation of the planning proposal, even with
German mounts.
There is also a .txt file release of the planning for the ACP
Observatory Control Software for your own use.
In addition .txt and .csv files are output
to support your own control.
You can plan the observing night for your own observatory or
any remote telescope.
NEO Planner supports up to 30
cameras or scenarios
per observatory. The
Execute Search Window supports searching for new objects with a mosaic display
of the star background.
Any deep sky object can also be displayed and selected in this window.
The calculated positions of a mosaic are sent to N.I.N.A. delivered via a
sophisticated XML and JSON interface, enabling an automatic search for
near-Earth objects.
The Execute Search Window can also be used via the "S" function in the Revise
Window, which shows the path of the selected planning object together with the
star background.
In addition, the asteroid classes Mars Crosser, Jupiter Trojan, Centaur,
TransNeptunian Object and Hyperbolic Asteroid can be integrated into the Execute
Planning process.
And many features more...
Have a look here for historical informations of K87 and other observers --> Hohmann's MPEC'able (Tracking News for Humans) and NEODyS
IAU Minor Planet Center Status MPEC Watch Global Statistics - All time
Both the following template and the scripts for Orchestrate, XML- and JSON for N.I.N.A.,
.TXT for ACP and .CSV for common usage are generated after the planning
procedure..
The preparation time for a night session usually takes about 15 - 30 minutes.
High Moon phases are requiring a little more time.
Examples of interfaces: Script for Orchestrate, Templates XML and JSON for N.I.N.A., Script for ACP, .CSV for own usage
Program from March, 29 2025 for K87 Dettelbach Vineyard Observatory:
Copyright: The
data comes from official access to web services from
MPC,
JPL,
NASA and
ESA,
whose origins are the tireless measurements of dozens of professional and
amateur observatories around the world
The observatories marked in green and red are users of NEO Planner.
Copyright: The
data comes from official access to web services from
MPC,
JPL,
NASA and
ESA,
whose origins are the tireless measurements of dozens of professional and
amateur observatories around the world
Customizable graphical platform of NEO and comet discoveries since 2020:
Presented here are the NEO discoveries of our user Christophe Demeautis from the
K19 PASTIS observatory, Banon in France from 2021 to 2024.
The green North - South axis represents the sidereal time
at the time of discovery. The East - West lines represent the
declination.
Congratulations to Christophe Demeautis from
K19 PASTIS Observatory,
Banon, France on discovering
NEOs
2021 YQ, 2022
BU1,
2022 HE3,
2022
NF1,
2022 SW3,
2022 SE6 ,
2022 TV2,
2022 TW2,
2023 CN3,
2023
HC,
2023 QE2,
2023 RE5,
2023 QH5,
2023 TF4,
2023 XY4,
2024
CJ3 and
2024
VZ on his station !!!
He also discovered the NEOs 2022 SK9 and 2022 SX7 and some more together with the team from
033
Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Tautenburg.
Some special events: March, 8 2024 - UT 21:47:35
During the automatic observation session, my Allsky camera was able to capture
this fireball
whose light was reflected in the dew cap of the telescope.
More information of the event from the IMO International Meteor Organization
here.
2024-03-08 (C) by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany
Camera: ZWO ASI178MC Lens: 2.8-12mm, 1:1.4. Recording time: 03/08/2024 21:47:35 UT, 15 seconds exposure time.
Another meteor event on August, 22 2023 - second night half
In
the early morning hours a bright
shooting star of the Perseids crossed
constellation Pisces
and ended its brief light show with a small explosion.
2023-08-22 (C) by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany
My Allsky camera caught a nice Perseid straggler in the Pisces. Track length
approx. 20° in PA 228.8.
Camera: ZWO ASI178MC Lens: 2.8-12mm, 1:1.4. Recording time: 08/22/2023 01:41:25
UT, 15 seconds exposure time.
The image is an unprocessed raw JPEG where I manually removed the hot pixels.
Bright Jupiter on the left.
Rarely have I caught such a magnificent example.
Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn came together this morning with the beautiful comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE.
A moment to pause and think about the beauty and size of our universe. This morning made my face smile.
I left my telescope with its automatic scanning of the sky and drove a
few kilometers to the highest elevation nearby.
There one of the best moments of nighttime observations awaited me.
Morning light comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE in Auriga, Lynx on the left. Menkalinan in Auriga is the brightest star top right.
2020-07-12 by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany double size 1.9MB original size 10MB
4sec. exposure,
2020-07-12 UT01:38, local time 03:38, 70mm f/3.2, Canon EOS 5D Mark II and
EF70-200mm f/2.8L ISII USM
mounted on a tripod, ISO1000, SQM 19.6 mag.
Outside temperature: 7°C, elevation: 297m, Processing: Adobe Lightroom.
No stiffeners because of Corona virus lockdown and best distant view.
The wind turbines with their warning lights on the horizon are approx. 27.5 km (17 miles) away.
C/2020 F3 NEOWISE in Auriga
2020-07-12 by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany larger image click here
4sec. exposure,
2020-07-12 UT01:20, local time 03:20, 170mm f/3.2, Canon EOS 5D Mark II and
EF70-200mm f/2.8L ISII USM mounted on a tripod,
ISO1250, SQM 20.1 mag.
Outside temperature: 7°C, elevation: 297m, Processing: Adobe Lightroom.
Asteroid of the day: 1999 RM45 from March, 1 2021 20:46UT MPC JPL orbit
45MB
animation of 96 images with 2.9 seconds exposure time each,
speed: 65 arcsec/min in P.A. 279.8, V~14.0 detail
Telescope: LX600 12" f-8, camera: QHY600L with SONY Full Frame BSI
CMOS Sensor IMX455 and Binning 4 x 4
Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) is probably starting a desintegration process.
There are two dots westward the central condensation. The comet tail is looking more and more like a cigar.
Here you find a light curve of the comet on CometasObs showing a decrease of the central magnitude since March, 28 2020
In comparison an image of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) during its desintegration process... and one week before
2020 FR3 is an Apollo type asteroid and classified as a PHA.
The small body passed a weak galaxy cluster in the Western edge region of constellation LEO close to the bounder of CANCER
NEO and Amor 2018 NB on July,19 2018
10 x
20sec. exposure, 2018-07-19 UT 01:18, 12" SCT
f-5.66 + CCD ST10XME,
15.0 mag, H 19.5, ~426m
Animation of 100 20sec. exposures, 01:12UT - 01:54UT, 42 minutes in reality ~ 1.5 sec. in animation
last observed comets:
C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2018-02-16 B/W
composed 31 2min. exposures,
2018-02-16 UT18:42, 0.30-m f/1646.2mm ACF-SCT + CCD
14.73mag, coma: 6', tail: 16' in PA91
C/2016 A1 (PANSTARRS) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2018-02-06 B/W
composed 33 120sec. exposures,
2018-02-06 UT22:32, 0.30-m f/2240.2mm SCT + CCD
16.23mag, coma: 13", tail: 3' in PA161
C/2016 A1 (PANSTARRS) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2018-02-06 B/W
animated 64 2min.exp, 2018-02-06 UT21:23 - 23:41; asteroid on the left side: 34286, 18.1 mag
C/2016 N4 (MASTER) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2017-09-22 B/W
composed 35 60sec. exposures, 2017-09-22 UT21:37, 0.30-m
f/1873.1mm SCT + CCD
16.29 mag, coma: 30", tail: 4'30' in PA150
C/2015 V2 (Johnson) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2017-05-20 B/W
composed 10 30sec. exposures, 2017-05-20 UT22:12, 0.30-m
f/1873.1mm SCT + CCD, IP: DDP low pass
12.05 mag, tail: 16' in PA317
41/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak by Bernhard Haeusler, 2017-05-01 B/W
composed 90 20sec. exposures,
2017-05-01 UT01:54, 0.30-m f/1875mm SCT + CCD, IP: DDP Kernel low
pass
13.6 mag, coma: 5', tail: 1' in PA236
Right: Video of 70 frames of 20 seconds exp.time each, 2017-05-01 UT01:54
Original size
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45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova by Bernhard Haeusler, 2017-03-26 B/W
composed 36 2min. exposures,
2017-03-26 UT20:10, 0.30-m f/1875mm SCT + CCD,
17.3 mag (10" Box), coma: 1'15", tails: 8'30" in PA284, 1'15" in PA106
Right: Video of 35 frames of 2 minutes exp.time each, 2017-03-26
UT20:10 - UT21:24
Flash of the Satellite IRIDIUM 86, Mirror 2 on February,13 2018 with -2.5 mag
IRIDIUM 86 2018-02-13 by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany
detail of 1 15 sec. exposure,
2018-02-13 UT 17:56:32, camera: ZWO ASI 178 MC Color, allsky lens: 2.5mm,
f-1.2 170�
No Moon.