Speakers
Description
2022 EB5, 2023 CX1 and 2024 BX1: these are the three recent imminent impactor discoveries from the Piszkesteto Mountain Station of the Konkoly Observatory. They make up about a quarter of all known such events since 2008 and one may ask what makes our survey sensitive to these little impactors. In this talk we describe our recently upgraded survey instrumentation, outline the observational strategy and the methodology with which we perform real-time analysis of the observations. We highlight the importance of the strong feedback between analysis and on-going data collection that maximizes the value of immediate follow-up. Finally, we discuss plans for moving forward to increase the sensitivity and the temporal and spatial coverage of our survey.