Hi Jack,
Here's a 5° Interactive Atlas Chart showing stars near NGC 559 to 18.6 magnitude & asteroids to 21.6 magnitude. I set the Trails option to show all MPs within a 2 day window around midnight 2022 Aug 30 0000 EDT. I think that's the correct time, but the 2 day window should cover it. The MP database has 1.2E^6 MP in it as shown at the lower right of the chart. I'm surprised that there aren't ANY MPs showing up on the chart. Normally they're everywhere.
Almost forgot to post the image:
He could submit the image to astrometry.net. I think that website will identify the MPs present in an image & flag any unknown objects.
Hope this helps,
Phil S.
I tried again with a 30° field near NGC 559 with stars displayed to 11.0 magnitude & MPs displayed to 23 magnitude. This time we had some success. Here's the chart:
Here's a 5° Interactive Atlas Chart showing stars near NGC 559 to 18.6 magnitude & asteroids to 21.6 magnitude. I set the Trails option to show all MPs within a 2 day window around midnight 2022 Aug 30 0000 EDT. I think that's the correct time, but the 2 day window should cover it. The MP database has 1.2E^6 MP in it as shown at the lower right of the chart. I'm surprised that there aren't ANY MPs showing up on the chart. Normally they're everywhere.
Almost forgot to post the image:
He could submit the image to astrometry.net. I think that website will identify the MPs present in an image & flag any unknown objects.
Hope this helps,
Phil S.
I tried again with a 30° field near NGC 559 with stars displayed to 11.0 magnitude & MPs displayed to 23 magnitude. This time we had some success. Here's the chart: