Important links

Information about asteroids

• Minor Planet Center (MPC) - THE clearing house for asteroid observations
• Gerhard Lehmann's site of the German asteroid observers - with many links for asteroid afficionados
• Near Earth Objects site, initiated by Andrea Milani

Software tools in use at TKO

• Astrometrica - for astrometric measurements of asteroids
• Guide - my favorite planetarium program, in particular for comparing telescope views to the screen
• EasySky - another planetarium program, phantastic for identifying asteroids for observations
• MaximDL - for operating CCD cameras and performing image processing