C/2015 C2 (SWAN) (Record n° 13468)
Orbital period : 6368.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Feb 28 00h19 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.6 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 10.3 " r (dist/Sun) 0.717 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.346 AU Right ascension 00 46 53.52 h m s Declination -14 58 41.6 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.02.28
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
CK15C020 C2015 02 28.01343 00 46 53.52 -14 58 41.6 13.5 N W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 28.01705 00 46 53.88 -14 58 20.9 13.7 N W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 28.02010 00 46 54.22 -14 58 03.5 13.5 N W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 28.02287 00 46 54.57 -14 57 47.5 13.6 N W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 28.02565 00 46 54.82 -14 57 33.5 13.6 N W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 28.02843 00 46 55.25 -14 57 17.8 13.6 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 3x3 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide No Exposure details 30 x 20s Moon elongation 89 ° Air mass 4.18 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.03 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Feb 28 03h03m17s Observation modification date 2015 Mar 15 23h24m52s