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Here we provide some public tools for data mining, planning and quality control of NEA observations.
They have been used for EURONEAR projects and are provided for free to anyone, with the request to add the proper acknowledgement in your projects.
Last updated: 2 Nov 2024 (new tool MagLim added, old tool O-C upgraded).

Tool	Description
Planning Tools
Planning	Generate a list of observable NEAs during one night (follow-up of newly discovered NEAs using the ESA Priority list)
Planning Recovery	Generate a list of observable NEAs during one night (recovery of older one-opposition NEAs using the NEODyS New Priority Lists)
Long Planning	Generate a list of observable NEAs for a longer timespan (used for photometry or spectroscopy)
Ephemeris from Designation	Calculate the ephemerides of a known solar system object given its name, number or designation
Ephemeris from Orbit	Calculate the ephemerides of a new solar system object given its Keplerian orbital elements
Ephemeris from Observations	Calculate the ephemerides of a new solar system object given its observations in MPC format
Data Mining Tools
Precovery Standard	Standard (p)recovery of known asteroids and NEAs uploading a telescope pointing archive in a standard format
Precovery CFHTLS	Precovery of known asteroids and NEAs from the CFHT Legacy Survey archive (25,000 MegaCam images 2003-2009)
Precovery Suprime-Cam	Precovery of known asteroids and NEAs from the Subaru Supreme-Cam archive (70,000 images 1999-2011)
Precovery INT	Precovery of known asteroids and NEAs from the ING/INT WFC image archive (about 562,000 images 2002-2016)
Precovery ESO	Precovery of known asteroids and NEAs from the ESO/MPG WFI image archive (about 121,000 images 1999-2012)
Mega Precovery from Designation	Search the Mega-Archive (15 million images) for any known asteroid or comet given by name, number or designation
Mega Precovery from Orbit	Search the Mega-Archive (15 million images) for any asteroid or comet given by Keplerian orbital elements
Mega Precovery from Observations	Search the Mega-Archive (15 million images) for any new asteroid or comet given by observations
CCD Searching Tools
Find CCD	Overlays NEA positions and their uncertainity regions above any given image taken with a major mosaic camera
Find CCD Subaru	Overlays NEA positions and their uncertainity regions above any given Suprime-Cam mosaic image
Quality Control Tools
O-C	Derives Observed minus Calculated (O-C) residuals for few asteroids observations (NEAs or others)
Astrocheck	Validates MPC reports of measured asteroid or comet astrometry, assumining a linear model for a short observation
MPCRepComp	Compares two MPC reports
Asteroids Identification	Identifies the known asteroids in a MPC report
Other Tools
NEA Checker	Checks a MPC report for NEA candidates
NEARBY UCV	Moving source detector for asteroid mini-surveys (UCV server in Craiova, Romania - needs login, please contact us)
NEARBY UTCN	Moving source detector for asteroid mini-surveys (UTCN server in Cluj-Napoca, Romania - needs login, please contact us)
MagLim	Histogram to evaluate the detection depth and limiting magnitude of sources given a FITS image with resolved WCS astrometry
Other Related Tools
MASFO	Mega Archive Search Fixed Objects - search for images containing one star, galaxy, nebulae, given by name or coordinates
FindCCD for Fixed Objects	Overlays fixed objects (stars, galaxies) above any given image taken with a major mosaic camera
MASDS	Mega Archive Search Double Stars - search for images containing double stars given by the WDSID or WDS Discoverer ID
FindCCD for Double Stars	Overlays double stars above any given image taken with a major mosaic camera
WDS Filter Datamining	Searches the WDS catalogue integrated with MASDS, FindCCD tools and the Mega-Archive
Older Tools
O-C v.1	Derives Observed minus Calculated (O-C) residuals for one short NEA observation - version 1
Mega Precovery v.1	Identifies images potentialy containing any known asteroid or comet in the Mega-Archive - version 1
Mega Precovery v.2	Identifies images potentialy containing any known asteroid or comet in the Mega-Archive - version 2
Planning	Generate a list of observable NEAs during one night (follow-up of newly discovered NEAs using the Spaceguard Priority list). Retired tool (Spaceguard priority list migrated to ESA). Replaced by Planning using the ESA Priority List.
Planning Recovery	Generate a list of observable NEAs using the MPC Bright and Faint databases. Retired tool (MPC does not provide anymore these databases). Replaced by Planning Recovery using NEODyS New Priority Lists.