[ATM] Amateur Asteroid detection

["ATM_Wes" <atm_wes@sbcglobal.net>]

Now that ASTEROID 2007 TU24 has passed by, I was wondering if there's any
way for an amateur to get involved in finding NEO asteroids.
If I have an automated telescope with a CCD camera, what do I do? 

Step 1: set it up to take pictures of the night sky.
Step 2: Now what???

Is there a best way to take the pictures? (West to East, exposure times,
stacked images, etc)
Do I take multiple pictures of the same area of the sky nightly or is it
once per night over multiple days? 
Once I have the pictures how do I tell if I caught an asteroid? I remember
something about blink comparators, is there a computerized way to do it? 
Once I have identified a likely candidate, how do I tell if it isn't a
"known" object? 
Do I calculate the orbit first and then try to match it to others to see if
it's known?
How do I calculate its orbit?
How do I compare that orbit to the thousands (?) of other objects orbits?
Once I've identified the orbit, how do I tell if it intersects the Earth's
orbit and how do you tell that "it might hit in xx number of years"?
Who do I report a "find" too?

Is there a FAQ somewhere on the net that has answers to these questions, or
is there someone on this list that can answer them for me?

I appreciate anybody's help. Thanks in advance.

WES

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