Just an update on the asteroid hunting tests...
I made some changes to the image comparison script (the new version has been updated in my original post). Now the candidate animated images are stamped with the dates/times extracted from the FITS files. Also made some other minor changes that should make it more "sensitive", I prefer having false-positives than overlooking a possible find.

Here a couple of animations from the last session:
 


(790) Pretoria, 15.01 magnitude.

 
(663) Gerlinde, 16.52 magnitude.

(Magnitude info is from Kstars).

Clear skies,
Ricardo

 

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