Astrometric and Photometric Observations of Solar System Bodies with Telescopes of Pulkovo Observatory

The Laboratory of Observational Astrometry of the Central (Pulkovo) Observatory of RAS makes observations of minor bodies of Solar System, such as Near Earth Objects (NEOs), Main belt asteroids, binary and multiple asteroids, comets, natural satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. Also observations of exoplanets, variable stars and search for gamma ray bursts afterglows are made. The observations are carried out with MTM-500M telescope, placed on Mount Astronomical Station of Pulkovo observatory (Northern Caucasus), and ZA-320M mirror astrograph of Pulkovo observatory. In the Laboratory, investigations are carried on among the following topics: improvement of asteroid and comet orbits; photometry of minor bodies and their physical parameters definition; modeling of binary and multiple asteroids and their lightcurves; astrometry and physical parameters definition of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn; observations of exoplanet transits.