BSGC Data
Contents
The archive data of Bisei Spaceguard Center at DARTS are mainly astronomical data such as asteroids approaching to the Earth.The data are taken by:
- the 25 cm telescope from Jun 2000 through Sep 2002
- the 1 m telescope from Mar 2007 through Mar 2017
Directories
The data are divided into directories for each year, 20YY/. Under each directory, there are directories for each day, 20YYMMDD/ (Year, Month, and Day) with mpNN/ or mpNN_[String]/ directories. NN is a number put in numerical order of the day, and [String] is an arbitrary character string that could be a celestial object name, a provisional designation, an asteroid name, a comet name, a spacecraft name, or celestial coordinates, etc. Most of them indicate a personal name of a near-earth object candidate discovered at other observatories in the world on that day or the few days before. These data were taken while tracking the concerned object.
example: 2007/ -- 20070322/ --- mp01/ mp02/ mp03/ mp04/ mp05/ mp06/ mp07/ mp08/ 2017/ -- 20170328/ --- mp01_YFA3BDA/ mp02_YF9EE67/
Files
Each mpNN/ or mpNN_[String]/ directory stores:[m]_[HHMMSS][n,s][DDMM]_[YYMMDD]_####.fits for the 25 cm telescope data [X,A]_[HHMMSS][n,s][DDMM]_[YYMMDD]_####_[b1,b2,b3,g1,g2,g3,g4].fits for the 1 m telescope data
- [m,X,A] indicates the telescope tracking method. But they are not strictly different.
- [HHMMSS][n,s][DDMM] shows equatorial coordinates of the telescope pointing position. n and s mean the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, respectively.
- [YYMMDD] is the date with year, month, and day.
- #### is a number in numerical order of continuous observations with the same pointing position.
- [b1,b2,b3,g1,g2,g3,g4] shows the CCD camera chip number.
- CCDs by Pixel Vision (b1~b3) were used until Jan 2009.
- The new-type mosaic camera (g1~g4) was used after Jan 2009.
- The pointing coordinate is positioned at the center of the b2 or g3 chip.
- The CCD of the 25 cm telectope has only 1 chip with no chip number.
example: 20070322/mp01/X_08405n3321_070322_0000_b1.fits = The data pointing at (8h40m50s, 33d21m) using b1 chip of the Pixel Vision's camera on March 22, 2007.