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3200 Phaethon

Orbital period : 1.43 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Sep 24 02h58 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)18.9
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.365 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.945 AU
Right ascension05 01 36.79 h m s
Declination+37 52 33.7 ° ' "
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 2011.09.24
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
03200        KC2011 09 24.12376 05 01 36.79 +37 52 33.7          18.6 R      C10
03200        KC2011 09 24.13234 05 01 36.76 +37 52 36.7          19.1 R      C10
03200        KC2011 09 24.13986 05 01 36.71 +37 52 38.8          19.2 R      C10
03200        KC2011 09 24.14874 05 01 36.69 +37 52 41.5          18.8 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 time2040 s
Exposure details17 X 120s
Moon elongation60 °
Air mass1.03
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 20h55m00s
Observation modification date2011 Dec 10 21h07m14s

(Record n° 5390)

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