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MPC 80-column, ADES (PSV or XML), or a plain table Click here if you don't know what these areMPC 80-column lines, ADES (PSV or XML), or a table of time, RA, Dec (mag, station)

Load a file Station It looks fuzzy Deep (takes minutes): IMCCE's SkyBoT as a second opinion, and a search in orbit space for objects seen on 3+ nights. Keep my rows private

Station: your observatory's 3-character MPC code (like T08). The MPC needs it to know where on Earth you stood. No code? Leave it empty: the checks then use the centre of the Earth, which is less exact.

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What leaves, and when

The kill test for anyone's discovery

The sky's second opinion.

Paste your detections. Skyptic runs the checks a professional would run first, shows the number behind each line, and if your candidate survives, writes its report for the right desk.

Blink two plates. Whatever jumps is the candidate.