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3200 Phaethon

Orbital period : 1.43 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Sep 03 01h15 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)18.9
m2 standard deviation0.3
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.394 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.287 AU
Right ascension04 55 17.11 h m s
Declination+36 12 43.4 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.09.02 and 03
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
03200        KC2011 09 03.05242 04 55 17.11 +36 12 43.4          18.9 R      C10
03200        KC2011 09 03.06015 04 55 17.40 +36 12 45.5          19.3 R      C10
03200        KC2011 09 03.06865 04 55 17.70 +36 12 48.9          18.6 R      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time720 s
Exposure details6 X 120s
Moon elongation149 °
Air mass1.70
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Dec 10 20h53m41s
Observation modification date2011 Dec 10 21h04m55s

(Record n° 5389)

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