EU-ESA Workshop on NEO Imminent Impactors Warning Coordination

Session

Invited Talk

12 Dec 2022, 16:35

Room H.I (ESOC)

Conveners

Invited Talk

• Juan L. Cano (ESA)

28. The true story of the discovery of 2022 EB5

K. Sarneczky (CSFK)

12/12/2022, 16:35

The 60/90/180 cm Schmidt telescope of the Konkoly Observatory, located at the Piszkéstető Mountain Station in Hungary, has always been a discovery machine.

In the first three decades of operations as a photographic instrument with a 5 degree field of view, it has resulted in the discovery of 47 supernovae, five comets and ten minor planets. The photographic plates were replaced by CCD...