Open AccessA Search for Peculiar Objects with the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory 3 Meter Liquid Mirror Telescope
Author(s) -
R. Cabanac,
E. F. Borra,
Mario Beauchemin
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the astrophysical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376
H-Index - 489
eISSN - 1538-4357
pISSN - 0004-637X
DOI - 10.1086/306488
Subject(s) - physics , observatory , astronomy , telescope , sky , galaxy , astrophysics , magnitude (astronomy) , apparent magnitude , schmidt camera , remote sensing , stars , geography
The NASA Orbital Debris Observatory (NODO) astronomical survey uses a transit 3-m liquid mirror telescope to observe a strip of sky in 20 narrow-band filters. In this article, we analyze a subset of data from the 1996 observing season. The catalog consists of 18,000 objects with 10
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