C/2015 F2 (Polonia) (Record n° 13861)
Orbital period : 245.20 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 May 15 08h31 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.8 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.235 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.737 AU Right ascension 21 41 05.50 h m s Declination -06 16 04.0 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.05.15 11:39:39
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK15F020 KC2015 05 15.35463 21 41 05.50 -06 16 04.0 16.8 N W96
CK15F020 KC2015 05 15.35985 21 41 06.00 -06 15 45.2 16.8 N W96
CK15F020 KC2015 05 15.36508 21 41 06.55 -06 15 26.1 16.8 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 QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 4x4 Exposure details 45x20s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.38 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-offset, add), Iris (levels, crop) Observation submission date 2015 May 15 11h42m01s Observation modification date 2015 May 19 00h00m01s