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Video astrometry and photometry of PHA (52768) 1998 OR2

Watec 910 video camera
IOTA-VTI GPS time inserter
OccuRec (recorder)
Tangra (analysis)
I was able to monitor this Potentially Hazardous Asteroid during March and April. Its long-duration apparition and reasonable weather resulted in 90 GPS-timestamped video astrometric measures from 22 nights submitted to the MPC.
NEODyS use MPC data to derive an object's residuals in RA, Dec, magnitude and a chi-squared data quality assessment. The attached diagram shows these residuals from stations using standard CCD astrometry, my video astrometry (Z92) and another video observer (Z43).
NEODyS magnitude residuals are obtained from the tangle of G, R and V magnitudes submitted by observers. In the chi-squared results, values nearer to 0 are assessed as being better quality.