The Minor Planet Observer
and
Palmer Divide Observatory

2007 Shoemaker Grant Recipient

A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis

"Oh how long we have waited for a book like this!"
Richard Binzel, Editor – Minor Planet Bulletin

Now available at Amazon.com and BarnesNoble.com

MPO Software

Version 10 Release

Pre-orders are now being taken.  Shipping will begin about Dec. 10-15. Credit cards will not be charged until the order is shipped.

Version 10 Upgrade Q&A (Why You Should Spend your Hard-earned Money)

Automated Imaging and Precision Data Reduction/Analysis
Imagine getting hundreds of images overnight while you sleep. Imagine reducing them in only a few minutes to find the rotation period of an asteroid or to reduce variable star observations to standard magnitudes. You don't have to imagine. You can do it with ease with MPO Connections and MPO Canopus.

Special Edition of MPO Canopus ships with SBIG ST-402ME Photometry Package

"The software is an absolute miracle of integration and simplification of a staggering number of variables, processes, mathematics and hardware.   I still can't believe it when I run your software through its paces; its just dazzling!" – D.D., WA

Palmer Divide Observatory

Professional Level Asteroid Lightcurve Research
Take a tour of the Observatory, located 20 miles north of Colorado Springs, CO, and then review the approximately 200 lightcurves that have been published in the Minor Planet Bulletin, Icarus, and other journals.

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