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<h1><b>Introduction</b></h1>

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The asteroid discoveries documented in my website refer to three phases of discoveries:<p>


1.  Discoveries from the online archive of Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) images.<br>


2.  Discoveries from the online archive of CCD images from the NEAT program.<br>


3.  Discoveries from a remotely-controlled telescope in New Mexico.<p>


The DSS images were digitized from 6896 photographic (glass) plates taken between 1949 and 2000. The plates are from the National Geographic 

Society - Palomar Observatory Surveys I and II, and from various Southern Sky Surveys at Siding Spring Observatory. Although there are many wide-field 

plates available online, and discoveries are credited to amateurs, the plates are poorly distributed in time and position (Right Ascension and 

Declination) to find and follow-up an asteroid. Nevertheless, since 2002 I have 47 numbered discoveries during 1976-1997 from this resource.<p>


The NEAT (Near Earth Asteroid Tracking) program is a survey to discover and track earth-approaching asteroids.  Many of the CCD images from the survey 

have been put online.  Up to September of 2003, discoveries from the NEAT archive were credited to amateurs, but since that date, all discoveries have 

been credited to NEAT.  I have 73 numbered discoveries from 2002 using the NEAT images.<p>


Using the remote facilities of Global-Rent-A-Scope in Mayhill, New Mexico, I have 385 numbered discoveries during 2005-2010.<p>


The Elements and Oppositions HTML pages were generated with my software originally written in the QuickBASIC 4.5 programming language.  The 

flexibility of QuickBASIC allowed HTML markups to be easily incorporated into the data.  With the transfer of my operating system from Windows XP to 

Windows 7 on October 31, 2012, I now use QB64 to update the web pages.<p>


On April 11, 2017, my website moved to the new domain andrew-lowe.ca.


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