260P/McNaught (Record n° 8163)
Orbital period : 6.90 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Dec 11 21h11 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.7 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.770 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.948 AU Right ascension 01 42 57.79 h m s Declination +41 07 01.2 ° ' " 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 2012.12.11
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0260P C2012 12 11.88293 01 42 57.79 +41 07 01.2 15.7 N C10
0260P C2012 12 11.89649 01 42 58.58 +41 06 57.3 15.7 N C10
0260P C2012 12 11.91140 01 42 59.43 +41 06 53.0 15.7 N C10
0260P C2012 12 11.92655 01 43 00.31 +41 06 48.5 15.7 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 details 30 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 146 ° Air mass 1.02 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 Dec 12 08h46m53s Observation modification date 2012 Dec 14 14h12m31s