  Small aperture telescopes provide the opportunity to conduct high frequency,
targeted observations of near-Earth Asteroids that are not feasible with larger
facilities due to highly competitive time allocation requirements. Observations
of asteroids with these types of facilities often focus on rotational
brightness variations rather than longer-term phase angle dependent variations
(phase curves) due to the difficulty of achieving high precision photometric
calibration. We have developed an automated asteroid light curve extraction and
calibration pipeline for images of moving objects from the 0.43 m Physics
Innovations Robotic Telescope Explorer (PIRATE). This allows for the frequency
and quality of observations required to construct asteroid phase curves.
Optimisations in standard data reduction procedures are identified that may
allow for similar small aperture facilities, constructed from commercially
available/off-the-shelf components, to improve image and subsequent data
quality. A demonstration of the hardware and software capabilities is expressed
through observation statistics from a 10 month observing campaign, and through
the photometric characterisation of near-Earth Asteroids 8014 (1990 MF) and
19764 (2000 NF5).
