Student: Jeffery D. AhernMentor: Edward Beshore

The mission of the Catalina Sky Survey is to find near-earth objects (NEOs) that pose an impact risk to Earth and it's inhabitants.

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This is done by taking four images that are exposed for 30 seconds separated by 10 minutes, and looking for objects that appear in one frame, and have a corresponding object in the other frames plotting in a straight line

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Observer looks over all the images of a field and selects the best

Subjective Time consuming Costly Hard to compare results

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Meaning to data Comparable Objective judgments Standardization Decreased error Repeatable Reliable Fast

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Full-Width Half-Maximum

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WHAT SHOULD NOT BE COUNTED

Galaxies

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ArtifactsBright stars that cause image bleeding

The Full-Width Half-Maximum value is a good metric to use to determine if the image is in focus

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