C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 7881)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Nov 13 17h59 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.3 m2 standard deviation 0.3 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " r (dist/Sun) 4.729 AU d (dist/Earth) 4.064 AU Right ascension 23 38 34.37 h m s Declination +48 05 21.9 ° ' " 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 2012.11.13
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
CK12S040 C2012 11 13.74911 23 38 34.37 +48 05 21.9 18.2 N C10
CK12S040 C2012 11 13.76243 23 38 33.69 +48 05 05.4 18.0 N C10
CK12S040 C2012 11 13.77738 23 38 32.89 +48 04 47.2 18.4 N C10
CK12S040 C2012 11 13.79229 23 38 32.09 +48 04 29.1 18.7 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 -30 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 3480 s Exposure details 29 x 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 129 ° Air mass 1.05 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 Nov 14 09h49m45s Observation modification date 2012 Nov 14 16h25m28s