168P/Hergenrother (Record n° 7488)
Orbital period : 6.78 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 18 00h20 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.2 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.424 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.430 AU Right ascension 00 31 18.96 h m s Declination +08 15 19.6 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.09.18
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0168P C2012 09 18.01405 00 31 18.96 +08 15 19.6 14.2 N C10
0168P C2012 09 18.02252 00 31 18.23 +08 15 45.3 14.2 N C10
0168P C2012 09 18.03493 00 31 17.15 +08 16 24.0 14.2 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) Rc (UBVRI) 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 1440 s Exposure details 12 x 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 169 ° Air mass 1.31 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Sep 20 02h47m53s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 20 02h56m39s