The Astrometric Performance Test of 80cm Telescope at Yaoan Station and Precise CCD Positions of Apophis

2022-05-24 06:33BifengGuoQingyuPengYingChenZhongjieZhengYijiaShangDanLiandXiaoChen

Bifeng Guo ,Qingyu Peng ,Ying Chen ,Zhongjie Zheng ,Yijia Shang ,Dan Li ,and Xiao Chen

1 Department of Computer Science,Jinan University,Guangzhou 510632,China;tpengqy@jnu.edu.cn

2 Sino-French Joint Laboratory for Astrometry,Dynamics and Space Science,Jinan University,Guangzhou 510632,China

Abstract The 80 cm azimuthal telescope has newly been mounted at Yaoan Station,Purple Mountain Observatory since 2018.The astrometric performance of the telescope is tested in the following three aspects.(a) The geometric distortion of its CCD attached.It is stable in both a single epoch and multi epochs.Eight distortion solutions are derived over about one year.The maximum values range from 0.75 to 0.79 pixel and the median values range from 0.14 to 0.16 pixel.(b)The limit magnitude of stars.About 20.5 mag(Gaia-G)stars can be detected with Johnson-V filter exposured in 300 s.The astrometric error of about 20.5 mag stars is estimated at 0 14 using the fitted sigmoidal function.(c)The astrometric accuracy and the precision of stacked fast-moving faint object.24 stacked frames of the potentially hazardous asteroid(99942)Apophis were derived on 2021 April 14 and 15(fainter than 18 mag)based on the ephemeris shifts.During data reduction,the newest Gaia EDR3 Catalog and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Horizons ephemeris are referenced as theoretical positions of stars and Apophis,respectively.Our results show that the mean (O −C)s(observed minus computed)of Apophis arein R.A.and decl.,and the dispersions are estimated atrespectively,which show the consistency of the stacked results by Astrometrica.

Key words:astronomical instrumentation–astrometry–asteroid belt–astronomy data analysis–astronomy data reduction

1.Introduction

The 80 cm azimuthal-mounting telescope at Yaoan Station,Purple Mountain Observatory has served for precise astrometry since it was set up in the year of 2018.Although some precise positions by the telescope have been published(Li et al.2021;Yuan et al.2021),the performance of the telescope has not been specified.The potentiality of the telescope should be taped through the performance test,which may serve for some surveys or occultation observations.In this paper,we aim to test its astrometric performance in the following three aspects.(a)The geometric distortion of its CCD attached.(b)The limit magnitude of stars.(c) The astrometric accuracy and the precision of stacked fast-moving faint object.

The astrometric potentiality of the telescope can be tapped by the solutions for the geometric distortions(GD).The Hubble Space Telescope(HST)is an obvious example,whose WFPC2 chip has a maximum geometric distortion of about 5 pixels at the edge of its field(Anderson&King 2003).By increasing the accuracy of the linear terms,a more accurate solution for GD is determined.After the GD correction,the observations of Saturnian satellites have much better precision than ever before(French et al.2006).Later,the HST observations of M92 are taken as a distortion-free reference frame to improve the GD solution of Keck II 10 m telescope’s near-infrared camera(NIRC2)in its narrow field mode,which is a major limitation for the proper motion measurements of Galactic central stellar cluster (Yelda et al.2010).

The limit magnitude of the telescope is also the embodiment of the astrometric potentiality.Namely,it tells us how faint the telescope can observe the object.Usually,it guides us to choose the objects of interest and develop observational plans.For example,we can explore the physical properties of the interested faint stars with high-precision astrometric positions.Also,some interesting faint Kuiper-belt objects can be detected and explored.

We explore the potentiality of observing fast-moving faint object by analyzing the astrometric accuracy and precision of stacked observations of Apophis.Besides,the astrometric positions of Apophis are also precious.Apophis was discovered by Bernardi,Tholen and Tucker on 2004 June 19 at Kitt Peak observatory(Minor Planet Supplement 109613).In the same year,the impact probability reached 2.7%on 2029 April 13 encountering with Earth,but later it was ruled out (Giorgini et al.2008;Farnocchia et al.2013).Nevertheless,some other close encounter events are forecast in 2068,2085 and 2088(Souchay et al.2018).Successive observations remain to be needed to monitor the positions of Apophis,which is of great importance to improve its orbital parameters.Besides,the observations in 2021 are the key information of analyzing the Yarkovsky effect for such a smallmass object (Vokrouhlický et al.2015;Brozović et al.2018).According to Jet Propulsion Laboratory Horizons ephemeris3http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/(JPL),although the predicted visual magnitude of Apophis is usually fainter than 20 mag in recent years,it is brighter than 17 mag in 2013 February when it is a valuable opportunity to observation.Some researchers (Thuillot et al.2015;Wang et al.2015) seized the opportunity and obtained the valuable precise positions of Apophis.

Because of its fast motion and faint brightness,high-quality observations of Apophis are hard to obtain with a smallaperture ground-based telescope.Observing in short-time exposures and stacking the frames are a good solution to obtain high-quality images,by which the performance of the telescope can be tested.This method was first proposed by Tyson et al.(1992) to detect faint Kuiper-belt objects a few decades ago.Later,this technique is well used to survey and find faint near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) (Shao et al.2014;Zhai et al.2014).It is shown that the technique can discover asteroids 10 times fainter than conventional searches (Heinze et al.2015).Wang et al.(2017) use the iterative stacking method to detect faint asteroids.Subsequently,Li &Peng(2020)find that the shift-and-add method can also improve the measurement of astrometric positions for some faint satellites of Jupiter.The developed open software also provides the function of stacking like Astrometrica4http://www.astrometrica.at/and MaxIm DL.5https://diffractionlimited.com/maxim-dl/This paper explores an alternative stacking way based on the ephemeris shifts of Apophis to obtain its precise positions.

The contents of this paper are arranged as follows.In Section 2,we give the specification and the operation performance of the telescope and its CCD attached.In Section 3,we elaborate the performance test of the telescope in geometric distortion,limit magnitude and the stack of fastmoving object Apophis.The conclusions and outlooks are shown in the last section.

2.Introduction of the Telescope

2.1.Specifications of the Telescope and CCD

The 80 cm azimuthal-mounting telescope at Yaoan Station,Purple Mountain Observatory is located at E101°N25°whose IAU code is O49.The specifications of telescope and the CCD attached are shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Specifications of the Telescope and its CCD

Table 2 The Specifications of the Two Sets of Observations to Explore the Limit Magnitude of the Telescope

2.2.Operation Performance

The azimuthal-mounting telescope is well-known to be more easily constructed than the equatorial-mounting telescope and is more stable for a large telescope.To follow the rotation of the sky,both of the axes (azimuth axis and altitude axis) must be turned around with a changing angle speed,which is compensated for photography.However,if the pointing of thetelescope goes close to the zenith,its azimuth will change 180°in a short time and there is a small region where the observations are impossible.

3.Astrometric Test of the Telescope

To explore the astrometric potentiality of the telescope,we test the operation performance of the azimuthal-mounting telescope from the obtained observations in geometric distortion(GD),limit magnitudes and the stack of fast-moving object Apophis.Few stars may be observed in the sparse sky areas,which leads to worse accuracy and precision due to the constructed plate model (Lindegren 1980).Generally,the calibration field is observed before observing the field of sparse sky areas so that the geometric distortion can be solved.In this work,we focus on the crowded sky areas.

3.1.The Stability of Geometric Distortion

Two kinds of observations are carried out to test the stability of GD.One is for single epoch observation data.In this case,multiple images are taken on the same night with the stars always at the same pixel location.The highest possible astrometric precision and the stability of GD during one night can be tested.The other is for multi-epoch observation data.These observations allow us to test the GD variation over time(nights,weeks,months and years).

For the stability of GD in the same epoch (the same night),we first solve the GD of CCD by the observations of open cluster M35 with Johnson-I filter on 2019 November 28 using a convenient method (Peng et al.2012).Then we retrieve the observations taken at the same night with the stars always at almost the same pixel location(some pixels’shifts exist due to the tracking error of the telescope).The pointing of the telescope is atJ2000) with exposure time 60 s for each CCD frame and totally 20 frames are taken.Three methods are used to perform data reduction for the stars to investigate the stability of GD.(a) A simple 6-parameter model transformation.(b) A 6-parameter model transformation after GD correction.(c) A 30-parameter model transformation.Figures 1 and 2 show the accuracy (mean(O −C)s) and precision (STDs) of the reduced results,respectively.From the results,the mean (O −C)s using 6-parameter model after GD correction improve significantly,which is similar to the 30-parameter model.The three methods above have almost the same precision.The results show that the geometric distortion is stable during this epoch.

Figure 1.The left and right panels show the three different reduced methods of the accuracies of the stars in R.A.and decl.,respectively.

Figure 2.The left and right panels show the three different reduced methods of the precisions of the stars in R.A.and decl.,respectively.

For the stability in different epochs(different nights),it is an effective way to test with the stars located on the same pixel location.After GD correction,other systematics effects of the stars(assuming zero proper motion)from multi-epoch data sets can be estimated.For the time arrangement of the telescope,such proper observations have not been taken.In our work,we solve the distortion for eight nights (range from 2018 December 30 to 2019 December 26) including the time of adjacent nights,weeks,months and years to test the stability of the distortion (see Figure 3).In Figure 3,the first eight panels show the GD vector graphs of the CCD solved by the observations of the open cluster M35 or NGC 2324.They are all taken with Johnson-I filter.For the details of the GD vector graphs,the large values of GD are located at the four corners of the CCD,which point to the corresponding corner,while the intermediate values are mainly located around the center of the CCD,which point to the CCD center.There is an annular region of the CCD where the GD values are small and the pointings are random.From the first eight panels,the shapes of the vector graphs show the consistency and the maximum values of the distortions range from 0.75 to 0.79 pixel over about one year.The median values of the distortion range from 0.14 to 0.16 pixel.Our results show that the distortion is stable over time.While the last panel of Figure 3 shows the difference of the two geometric distortion solutions of 2019 December 26 and 2018 December 30.The difference of GD values of each region in the pixel coordinate are stable and the median value is 0.04 pixel (aboutFor the stable GD solutions,it is easier to obtain precise positions of the objects after GD correction even if there are not enough stars in the field of view to construct high-order plate model.

We have also derived the distributions of the astrometric errors of the calibration field for open cluster M35,which are also used to derive the geometric distortion solutions.We perform data reduction with 30-parameter model and compute the mean residual (O −C)s of each area in R.A.(X-axis) and decl.(Y-axis),which are shown in Figure 4.The resultant valuesof the residuals are very small and the obvious trend of the distribution has not been found.The median value of the residuals is 0004.

Figure 3.The GD graphs are derived from the observations of open cluster M35 or NGC 2324.A factor of 500 is used to exaggerate the magnitude of each geometric distortion vector.The first eight panels show the GD graphs in different epochs.The last panel shows the difference of the two geometric distortion solutions of 2019 December 26 and 2018 December 30.

Figure 4.The left and right panels show the residual graphs derived from the observations of open cluster M35 on 2018 December 30 and 2019 December 26,respectively.A factor of 1000 is used to exaggerate the magnitude of each vector.

Figure 5.The left and right panels show the accuracies and the precisions of the stars in R.A.and decl.on 2018 November 5,respectively.

Figure 6.The left and right panels show the accuracies and the precisions of the stars in R.A.and decl.on 2019 October 9,respectively.

3.2.The Limit Magnitude

The limit magnitude of the stars is also explored by reducing the observations (reduction details in Section 3.3.6) with long exposure time (300 s).The relationship between astrometric errors and exposure time can be consulted from Lindergren’s work (Lindegren 1980).The specifications of the used observations are shown in Table 2.Figures 5 and 6 show the reduction results of the observations and the pointings of the telescope are atJ2000) andrespectively.From the results over two nights,the stars fainter than 20 mag(Gaia-G) can be detected using the Gaussian centering algorithm where the detection threshold is set as 3σ of the background in each frame.The signal-to-noise ratio(S/N)of the faintest stars of each frame is about 5.

Figure 7.The left and right panels show that the astrometric errors fit with FWHM/S/N (S/N >10) using a linear function and Gaia-G magnitude using the sigmoidal function,respectively.The fitted functions are shown in red lines.

Table 3 Observations Overview

The relationship between astrometric errors and FWHM/S/N is really an effective way to estimate the astrometric precision,especially for high-S/N stars.Considering both bright and faint stars across the field of view,it is found that the sigmoidal function can fit well with Gaia-G magnitude and the astrometric precision(Lin et al.2019).The expression of sigmoidal function is shown in formula (1).We have compared the two methods above to estimate the astrometric errorsUsing the observations on 2018 November 5,the astrometric errors can be fitted in Figure 7.The left and right panels show that the astrometric errors fit with FWHM/S/N (S/N >10)using linear function and Gaia-G magnitude using sigmoidal function,respectively.Both of them can be fitted well.Although the S/Ns for faint stars cannot be determined accurately,the precisions can be well expressed with a sigmoidal function.Therefore,we use the sigmoidal function to estimate the precision of the stars.

For the observations in 2018,about 20.5 mag stars can be detected and the corresponding astrometric error is estimated atusing the fitted sigmoidal function.While for the observations in 2019,about 19.0 mag stars can be detected,the corresponding astrometric error is estimated atThe difference of the limit magnitude over two sets of observations are mainly caused by the atmosphere conditions.The astrometric precisions of these observations are estimated with sigmoidal functions,whose parameters are shown in Table 2.However,brighter stars might have larger astrometric errors from the observations because they might be saturated.The sigmoidal function only takes the unsaturated stars into account

3.3.The Stack of Fast-moving Object

In order to test the astrometric performance of the fastmoving object,we explore the astrometric accuracy and precision of the stacked observations of Apophis.

3.3.1.Observations

During the observation,the angular rate of Apophis is about 1″per minute(details in Figure 10).Given that the Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) of the star images are usually 3–5 pixels and the astrometric precision,a CCD frame of Apophis is required to be exposured within 20 sDue to the fact that the object is so faint and invisible in a frame,the stacking method has to be performed to improve the S/N.The observations overview of Apophis are shown in Table 3.The observations are taken on 2021 April 14 and 15 using Johnson I filter.The seeing over two nights are similar and the predicted visual magnitude of Apophis is fainter than 18 mag.

We evaluate the star images’ FWHMs and the shifts in pixel with respect to its nearby CCD frame for each frame.We also derive the middle time of observation for each frame from the headers of FITS files.Given the stacked S/N of the object and the number of the total frames,we stack in group of 10 frames.To ensure the quality of stacked frames,we select frames with similar FWHMs of star images,near observation time and small pixel shifts into a group.Finally,13 and 11 groups of observations were selected on 2021 April 14 and 15,respectively.

3.3.2.Alignment of Stars

In a group,we select a high-S/N frame as a master frame such that other frames in this group should be aligned to.A stacked frame refers to the frame after stacking,which is equivalent to a master frame taken by a larger-aperture telescope with the same exposure time.According to what we align to (the stars or the object),the stacked frames include star-stacked frames and objectstacked frames.Flat fielding and bias subtracting are made to remove the difference of pixel response to photoelectrons before stacking.The procedures of aligning stars are described as follows.First,we obtained the position of each star image and performed photometry.Thus,the pixel positions (x,y) and the instrumental magnitude of each star image of the master frame can be obtained.In the same way,we can derive the positions(x′,y′)and the instrumental magnitude of each individual frame.The same star is located in both master frame and individual frame in a group can be identified conveniently through the relationships of the positions and the instrumental magnitudes.As for each individual frame,we can calculate the corresponding position of the master frame through a 6-parameter model transformation(see Equation (2)) fitted by a least square method.We have tried higher order polynomial models (including 12-parameter model and 20-parameter model)to align the images for the observations of Apophis.However,no obvious improvement is found for the accuracy and the precision in this set of observations,which might reflect the stable atmosphere conditions and the geometric distortion.We also think that high-order polynomial model alignment will work better in the group of images with different pointings (dithered frames),different epochs or in a rapidly changing atmosphere.According to the transformed model,the pixel positions of each individual frame in a group can be transformed to the master frame using the Drizzle method(Fruchter &Hook 2002)

3.3.3.Alignment of Object

After each individual frame has been aligned to the master frame according to the positions of the stars,we are to calculate the shifts in pixel of each individual frame with respect to the master frame to align the object such as Apophis.Specifically,we first derive the middle of exposure time of both master frame and individual frames.Then,we can calculate the object’s R.A.and decl.(apparent positions) according to its ephemeris.In these frames (including the master frame and each individual frame),we can obtain the pixel positions(x,y)and the standard coordinate(ξ,η)of each star(more details in Section 3.3.6).The standard coordinate positions (ξo,ηo) of the object can also be calculated through the central projection after considering the atmosphere refraction.A least squares scheme is used to solve the plate model with a 6-parameter model (see Equation (3)).Next,we can derive the positions of the object in the pixel coordinate (xo,yo) of both master frame and each individual frame according to the plate model.Finally,the shifts in pixel of each individual frame with respect to the master frame Δxoand Δyocan be calculated and added to the parameter c and f in Equation (2),respectively after the alignment of stars

3.3.4.Stack of CCD Frames

After alignment,the frames (including a master frame and nine individual frames in a group) are stacked with all the corresponding average pixel values using the Drizzle method(Fruchter &Hook 2002).Then,we perform both star-stacking and object-stacking.In this way,we can derive the positions of stars from star-stacked frames and the positions of the object from object-stacked frames.The left and right panels of Figure 8 show a star-stacked frame and an object-stacked frame,respectively.We can see the trailing of Apophis in the starstacked frame and the trailing of stars in the object-stacked frame.Figure 9 shows the counts (ADU) across the pixel coordinate (in both X and Y-axes) of Apophis in an individual frame and an object-stacked frame.In each panel,X Axis shows the pixel location of Apophis,and Y Axis shows the counts of the corresponding pixel locations.The sky background is easier to be distinguished in the object-stacked frames.Compared with the panels in the individual frame,the distributions of the objectstacked frame are closer to the Gaussian profile.

3.3.5.Comparison with Astrometrica’s Stacking

The stacking function of Astrometrica is usually used to survey where we can set the angular rate (i.e.,proper motions) and the position angle(P.A.)of the moving object.However,the software assumes that the object goes along a uniform straight linear motion.Namely,the two parameters(angular rate and P.A.)have to be set as the constant in a group of frames.To obtain higherprecision positions of the object with a fast motion,we try to explore the effect of the changes of angular rate and P.A.Figure 10 shows the angular rate and the P.A.of Apophis according to JPL ephemeris changing over time during the observation.From Figure 10,the angular rate and P.A.change obviously with respect to the observation time.Compared with Astrometrica,we calculate the relative shifts of each frame based on the object’s ephemeris shifts and we consider the relative positions from ephemeris is accurate in a short time.

Figure 8.The left and right panels are the subframes after stacking.The left shows a star-stacked subframe while the right shows an object-stacked subframe.

Figure 9.The top two panels show the counts(ADU)across pixel coordinate(in both X and Y-axes)of Apophis in an individual frame.The bottom two panels show the counts(ADU)across pixel coordinate(in both X and Y-axes)of Apophis in a stacked frame.For each panel,X-axis shows the pixel location of Apophis,while Yaxis shows the pixel counts,where we define the center pixel location of Apophis is 0.

Figure 10.The angular rate(i.e.,proper motions)and the position angle(P.A.)of Apophis according to JPL ephemeris(5 minutes for interval)during the observation time on 2021 April 14 and 15.The zero-point of the time axis is set as UTC 12:00 on 2021 April 14.

Figure 11.The left and right panels show the common stars’ mean (O −C)s of Astrometrica’s stacking and our stacking method,respectively based on the observations of 2021 April 14.

3.3.6.Data Reduction

We perform data reduction to the stacked observations from Astrometrica and stacked observations based on the ephemeris shifts stacking,respectively.Each frame is reduced by the following procedures.First,we measure the pixel positions (x,y) of each stars in the star-stacked frames by the twodimensional Gaussian centering algorithm.In the same way,we can obtain the pixel positions (xo,yo) of the object in the object-stacked frames.Second,we calculate the standard coordinate (ξ,η) of each star through the central projection(Green 1985).The reference equatorial coordinates (α,δ) here are taken from the newest Gaia EDR3 catalog (Gaia Collaboration et al.2021) and calculated to the astrometric positions at the observational epoch.The reference positions of the object(Apophis)are obtained from the JPL ephemeris.101 and 82 Gaia stars are found for observations on April 14 and 15,respectively.The least squares scheme is used to solve the plate model with a weighted fourth-order polynomial(Lin et al.2019).In this way,the(O −C)s(observed minus computed)of stars and the object can be calculated.

3.3.7.Astrometric Results

Figures 11–13 show the mean (O −C)s and standard deviations (STD) of the stars of star-stacked frames in R.A.and decl.stacked by Astrometrica and stacked based on the ephemeris shifts,respectively.The two stacking methods show the consistency of both the accuracy and the precision.Figure 14 shows the (O −C)s of the object (Apophis) by the two stacking methods in R.A.and decl.,respectively and Table 4 gives the mean (O −C)s and the STDs of the object.The observed topocentric astrometric positions of the object are listed in Table 5.Also,they can be downloaded from the website of Sino-French Joint Laboratory for Astrometry,Dynamics and Space Science of Jinan University.6https://astrometry.jnu.edu.cn/download/list.htm

Table 4 Statistics of Mean (O −C)s and STDs for Apophis over Two Nights

Table 5 The Observed Topocentric Astrometric Positions of Apophis

Figure 12.The left and right panels show the common stars’ mean (O −C)s of Astrometrica’s stacking and our stacking method,respectively based on the observations of 2021 April 15.

Figure 13.The left and right panels show the common stars’STDs of Astrometrica’s stacking and our stacking method based on the observations of 2021 April 14 and 2021 April 15,respectively.

Figure 14.The left and right panels show the object’s (O −C)s of Astrometrica's stacking and our stacking method in R.A.and decl.,respectively.

From the results above,the dispersions of the two stacking methods show the consistency.Astrometrica is an open wellintegrated astrometric software and the difference of object’s(O −C)s by the two methods might mainly derive from the considered velocity model.However,the difference of object’s(O −C)s by two methods in such precision makes little sense to orbital determination.The results above also show that the object fainter than 18 mag can be detected through stacking.With high-credibility accuracy,the positions’ precision of the object is better thanin both R.A.and decl.

3.3.8.Discussion

To detect unknown objects or those whose ephemeris is inaccurate,iterative stacking method (Zhai et al.2014;Heinze et al.2015) according to the stacked S/N of the object would be a better solution,which is promising to survey.However,this iterative method costs more time and computing resources of the computer.Besides,the astrometric precisions of the objects are to be explored because this method concentrates on detecting unknown object after all.Astrometrica also provides the stacking function,assuming the object going along a uniform linear motion.The model of iterative stacking survey has not been supported so far.The iterative stacking method usually adopts the way of uniform straight linear motion for the objects.However,if the motion of the object changes significantly during the observation time such as NEAs,sometimes the effect of the changes of angular rate and its position angle should be considered.If the relative positions of the object from the ephemeris are accurate in a short time,we can take the effect of velocity change into account,which might help us obtain higher-precision astrometric positions of the object.However,this work only tests the performance of the stacking object with angular rate of about 1″ per minute.The performance of moving object with different angular rates has not been tested.The potential of this telescope at observing fast-moving objects has not been fully addressed.

4.Conclusion and Outlook

In this paper,we have a test to the performance of the 80 cm azimuthal-mounting telescope at Yaoan Station,Purple Mountain Observatory in stability of GD,the limit magnitude and the astrometric accuracy and precision of the stack of fast-moving object Apophis.We find that the geometric distortion of the CCD is stable in a single epoch and multi epochs.From eight derived GD solutions over about one year,the maximum values of each vector ranges from 0.75 to 0.79 pixel.The median value of each vector ranges from 0.14 to 0.16 pixel.About 20.5 mag(Gaia-G)stars can be detected with Johnson-V filter exposured in 300 s.The astrometric error is estimated atusing the fitted sigmoidal function.24 groups of stacked observations are derived in total over two nights based on the ephemeris shifts of Apophis.After data reduction,our results show that the mean (O −C)s of Apophis areandin R.A.and decl.,and the standard deviation areandrespectively.The results based on the ephemeris shifts have a little systematic deviation of object’s (O −C)s compared with the results by uniform linear motion stacking of Astrometrica,which is mainly probably caused by the velocity model of the object.The astrometric results show that the fast moving object fainter than 18 mag can be detected through the stacking method with the precision better thanHowever,this work only tests the stacking of object Apophis,and the potential of the telescope at observing fast-moving objects has not been fully addressed.We will explore the limit magnitude of the telescope with other filters (such as Johnson I filter)and objects with different angular rates for stacking.The telescope also has the potentiality to perform photometry,which will be explored with more proper observations.

Acknowledgments

We appreciate the reviewers (Valéry Lainey and another anonymous reviewer)who provide the constructive comments.We are grateful for Drs.Li F.,Yuan Y.,and others for the group of 80 cm telescope providing the help of obtaining observations.We also thank Prof.Fu Y.N.from Purple Mountain Observatory who gave some valuable advice to our work.This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant Nos.11873026 and 11273014),by the Joint Research Fund in Astronomy (grant No.U1431227),by the science research grants from the China Manned Space Project with No.CMS-CSST-2021-B08 and Excellent Postgraduate Recommendation Scientific Research Innovative Cultivation Program of Jinan University.This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA)mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia),processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium(DPAC,https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium).Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions,in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.