Asteroids detection tehnique: Classic “blink”: An automated approch
Asteroids detection is a very important research field that received increased attention in the last couple of decades. Some major surveys have their own dedicated people, equipment and detection applications, so they are discovering Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) daily. The interest in asteroids is not limited to those major surveys, it is shared by amateurs and mini-surveys too. Some of them are using the few existing software solutions, most of which are developed by amateurs. The rest obtain their results in a visual manner: they “blink” a sequence of reduced images of the same field, taken at a specific time interval, and they try to detect a real moving object in the resulting animation. Such a technique becomes harder with the increase in size of the CCD cameras. Aiming to replace manual detection, we propose an automated “blink” technique for asteroids detection.