2025-07-12, 07:55 PM
What I want to do: Understand why a generated target list of minor planets between mag 14 and 16 using Database Power Search produced 53 results but only 5 are between RA 13h – 22h (basically the current summer sky). Seems an unlikely distribution. The “bright” MPC list was the source file and only filters were an observing date of July 10, 2025, mag 14 – 16, and main/outer belt asteroids. Other sources (CdC, C2A) reveal dozens of asteroids meeting those criteria and about the same density in Scorpius, Sagittarius, and Libra as Orion and Taurus. What am I missing? Thanks in advance.