Hunting for Dangerous Asteroids

[@JoshuaPritt]

Some heroes don't wear capes. This is a great example on how a single person could literally save the entire planet.

[@pulsarsbeam6411]

I've studied astronomy half my life, and been doing astrophotography for a few years now. I've always been interested in asteroid hunting,cataloging and tracking. You need a relatively large aperture to resolve small low apparent magnitude objects like asteroids. Also a nice tracking mount, both are preety expensive, not including the cooled ccd sensors. Mabye one day I'll have a nice setup, and join the pepole like this in the effort to catalog these near earth objects. I had no idea that this kind of optical array existed in the astronomy community. Very interesting, I might do some more research on it.

[@denniswilde2013]

You can do a lot with even modest equipment. There are a lot of brighter asteroids that still need refinement of their orbits you can image and measure. I hope to soon have a larger instrument, but I've been doing asteroid astrometry for the past 3 years with a 127mm refractor.

[@zapfanzapfan]

I'm proud to be a member and support this!

[@AstronomyLive]

Excellent video information 👍👍👍👍

[@anandvenkatakrishnan5856]

Great work. Amazing set up. Lovely passion. Incredible journey.

[@daniellegunn897]

1:25 is hilarious. Great story.

[@socialwebwiki]

thank you guys.

[@ikestoddard2458]

As a retired spacecraft engineer, what effort can I contribute to help defend the planet, without money? (Computing?)

[@BBAFER]

Dang that’s cool

[@SaturnDancer10]

Well we know there’s one coming at this very moment on December 2019

[@daniellu8282]

I wonder how Bob does the tax write-offs on his telescopes. I couldn't justify getting a 24 inch telescope until I found out about this project.

[@dheerendrakumarlodha3281]

You know Hindi sir

[@phonotical]

False preposition, it's already hit the earth, therefore what would we do about: nothing