260P/McNaught (Record n° 6879)
Orbital period : 6.90 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Jul 26 02h08 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.8 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.585 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.927 AU Right ascension 01 02 22.69 h m s Declination -01 17 42.1 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.300-m f/3 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.07.26
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0260P C2012 07 26.08858 01 02 22.69 -01 17 42.1 15.8 N C10
0260P C2012 07 26.09447 01 02 23.30 -01 17 33.2 15.8 N C10
0260P C2012 07 26.10191 01 02 24.05 -01 17 22.1 15.8 N C10
0260P C2012 07 26.10914 01 02 24.78 -01 17 11.2 15.8 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 160 ° Air mass 1.93 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Jul 26 13h25m00s Observation modification date 2012 Jul 26 16h22m56s