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3200 Phaethon

Orbital period : 1.43 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Dec 12 18h21 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.8
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.369 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.684 AU
Right ascension01 01 48.64 h m s
Declination+28 45 25.5 ° ' "
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 2012.12.12
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
03200        KC2012 12 12.76469 01 01 48.64 +28 45 25.5          17.7 R      C10
03200        KC2012 12 12.77683 01 01 48.29 +28 45 14.3          17.8 R      C10
03200        KC2012 12 12.79324 01 01 47.81 +28 44 58.9          17.9 R      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-30 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60
AutoguideYes
Exposure details19 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation129 °
Air mass1.09
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Dec 12 23h35m20s
Observation modification date2012 Dec 14 14h27m29s

(Record n° 8172)

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