116P/Wild (Record n° 15055)
Orbital period : 6.52 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Jan 15 08h55 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.7 Aperture radius used for m2 6.2 " r (dist/Sun) 2.187 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.262 AU Right ascension 14 35 26.78 h m s Declination -14 52 33.3 ° ' " 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 2016.01.15 10:24:02
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0116P C2016 01 15.37159 14 35 26.78 -14 52 33.3 15.8 N W96
0116P C2016 01 15.37850 14 35 27.41 -14 52 36.9 15.8 N W96
0116P C2016 01 15.38602 14 35 28.22 -14 52 41.1 15.8 N W96
Instrument Marcon RC 400 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 -30 °C Binning 3x3 Mount Paramount Exposure details 14x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.04 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (gradient, levels, crop) Remarks or comments Tracking rates set on comet orbital elements.
NB: mag was originally reported using 5.2" aperture radius. Observation submission date 2016 Jan 15 10h30m30s Observation modification date 2016 Mar 17 22h30m59s