Green object - real or artefact?

https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=148.9680&dec=0.6801&layer=decals-dr7&zoom=15

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If you look in the “Single Exposures” link (here, for DR11), you’ll see it –

It’s green, so you want to look in the “r” band – because (R,G,B) = (z, r, g) in these images.

If you scroll down to the “r” band images, you’ll see a huge bright dot in one of them.

Very likely an asteroid.

I tried the JPL link (which seems to not be working very well or at all these days…) and got a web error, but I also tried the Minor Planet center ( Error from WebCS Script ) and get that this is asteroid

(2307) Garuda

cheers,

dustin

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Thank you, that is very helpful! :slightly_smiling_face: