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Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search (LONEOS):
Begun in 1993, the LONEOS system utilizes a 0.6-meter f/1.8 Schmidt telescope
in Flagstaff Arizona to discover near-Earth comets and asteroids. The telescope was acquired
from Ohio Weslayan University in 1990. Using a 4K x 4K CCD detector to cover a field of view
of 2.9 x 2.9 degrees, the telescope is designed to make four scans per region over the
entire visible sky each month down to a limiting magnitude of about 19. In 1999-2000,
the efficiency of the LONEOS program in discovering NEOs increased significantly due to
upgrades to the CCD camera and data reduction software.
Edward Bowell: Principal Investigator
Bruce W. Koehn: Computer Programming
Karri Muinonen: Asteroid detection modeling
Look here for additional information on the LONEOS program:
http://asteroid.lowell.edu/asteroid/loneos/loneos.html
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