260P/McNaught (Record n° 7484)
Orbital period : 6.90 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 16 01h24 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.9 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.498 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.608 AU Right ascension 02 02 17.54 h m s Declination +25 11 49.6 ° ' " 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 2012.09.16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0260P C2012 09 16.05819 02 02 17.54 +25 11 49.6 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 09 16.06434 02 02 17.61 +25 12 01.9 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 09 16.07185 02 02 17.69 +25 12 16.9 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 09 16.07956 02 02 17.78 +25 12 32.3 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 09 16.08707 02 02 17.88 +25 12 47.3 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 09 16.09449 02 02 17.96 +25 13 02.0 13.9 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 3000 s Exposure details 25 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 136 ° Air mass 1.10 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Sep 17 15h52m03s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 17 16h04m08s