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C/2015 F2 (Polonia)

Orbital period : 245.20 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 May 29 07h55 UT by Thierry Noel


(Copyright Thierry Noel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.5
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m25.5 "
Coma diameter0.2 '
Tail length0.008 °
Tail position angle (PA)280 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.295 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.766 AU
Right ascension22 00 42.14 h m s
Declination+06 57 34.8 ° ' "
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 2015.05.29 12:41:46
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK15F020 KC2015 05 29.33018 22 00 42.14 +06 57 34.8          17.3 N      W96
    CK15F020 KC2015 05 29.33410 22 00 42.34 +06 57 47.0          17.6 N      W96
    CK15F020 KC2015 05 29.33802 22 00 42.59 +06 57 59.9          17.5 N      W96
Instrument typeRitchey-Chretien
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length3200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter8
Filter(s)None
CameraQHY9
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-35 °C
Binning4x4
MountParamount
Exposure details40x20s
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationSan Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.38 "/pix
Image processingAstrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (gradient, levels, crop)
Observation submission date2015 May 29 13h10m26s
Observation modification date2015 May 29 22h56m50s

(Record n° 13943)

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