C/2015 F2 (Polonia) (Record n° 13600)
Orbital period : 245.20 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Apr 03 08h40 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.8 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.262 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.832 AU Right ascension 19 29 08.31 h m s Declination -45 34 56.3 ° ' " 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 2015.04.03
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
CK15F020 KC2015 04 03.36126 19 29 08.31 -45 34 56.3 16.9 N W96
CK15F020 KC2015 04 03.37025 19 29 10.96 -45 34 34.2 16.8 N W96
CK15F020 KC2015 04 03.37949 19 29 13.62 -45 34 12.7 16.7 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 -25 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 80 x 15s Moon elongation 105 ° Air mass 1.28 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Apr 03 11h49m41s Observation modification date 2015 Apr 03 11h50m12s