La Cañada Observatory, is an initiative by Juan Lacruz, the observatory started astrometric operations in the summer of 2002, it is registered as station J87 in the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union.

The Observatory also participates in the studies on minor bodies promoted by the Group on Meteorites, Minor Bodies, and Planetary Sciences of the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC).



Showing posts with label Apollo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apollo. Show all posts

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Observaciones 13-nov-2015 La Cañada

Confirmación de tres objetos publicado en la página de confirmación de NEOs NEOCP

2015 VG106 Main Belt
2015 VT105 Main Belt

2015 VA196 NEO Apollo

Imágenes de confirmación del nuevo asteroide NEO apollo 2015 VA196, observatorio de La Cañada 13-nov-2015 a 1.8232459 e 0.5238127 Incl. 3.74823

MPEC K15VG0


2015 VA196 13-nov-2015 J87 La Cañada


La Galaxia de Andrómeda, suma de 8 imágenes de 2 minutos
Algunas imágenes de Táuridas, son fragmentos del cometa 2P Encke




Descubrimiento de un nuevo objeto del cinturón principal, de momento no tiene órbita publicada, las efemérides están basadas en una aproximación de Väisälä, el asteroide ronda actualmente la magnitud 21V.

2015 VY144

No published elements available. Ephemeris is based on Generalized Väisälä elements based on observations 2015 Nov. 13-14.

Further observations? Useful for numbering.


     K15VE4Y       [H=]
Date       UT      R.A. (J2000) Decl.    El.    V      Sky Motion
            h m s                                      "/min    P.A.
2015 11 21 000000 03 04 52.6 +16 51 35  170.4  20.9    0.60    247.9
2015 11 22 000000 03 03 57.2 +16 46 11  169.1  20.9    0.59    247.8
2015 11 23 000000 03 03 02.3 +16 40 50  167.9  20.9    0.59    247.7
2015 11 24 000000 03 02 08.1 +16 35 30  166.7  21.0    0.58    247.6
2015 11 25 000000 03 01 14.6 +16 30 13  165.4  21.0    0.57    247.6



Sunday, January 6, 2013

NEOCP Confirmations

A new amor object with provisional designation 2013 AL11 was observed and confirmed with the 0.40 m telescope at La Cañada, moving quite fast at about 5 arc seconds per minute the individual exposures were limited to 12 seconds to keep the object untrailed.

References : MPEC 2013-A25

New apollo object designated as 2013 AO27 confirmed.

References : MPEC 2013-A38

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Apollo 2012 KE25

New apollo object 2002 KE25 has been confirmed in observations form La Cañada Observatory on the night of May the 25th.


New apollo object 2002 KE25 has been confirmed in observations form La Cañada Observatory on the night of May the 25th.

COD J87
OBS J. Lacruz
MEA J. Lacruz
TEL 0.40-m Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.05.25 21:34:23
AC2 juan -at- lacanada.es
NET UCAC-3
    TK7E8CF KC2012 05 25.88648 11 27 11.67 -20 19 25.5          19.7 V      J87
    TK7E8CF KC2012 05 25.89002 11 27 12.52 -20 19 23.7          19.8 V      J87
    TK7E8CF KC2012 05 25.89357 11 27 13.37 -20 19 22.0          19.6 V      J87
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References : MPEC 2012-K55

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Virtual impactor 2009 XC2, Apollo NEO

New apollo NEO confirmed on 2009 Dec 12.
Flagged as virtual impactor in JPL Sentry
Urgent observation required.
Ref.- MPC circular