53P/Van Biesbroeck (Record n° 15265)
Orbital period : 12.65 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Mar 11 08h24 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.5 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.2 " r (dist/Sun) 2.461 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.757 AU Right ascension 19 16 54.24 h m s Declination -17 01 06.2 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.03.11 11:19:53
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0053P KC2016 03 11.35020 19 16 54.24 -17 01 06.2 16.5 N W96
0053P KC2016 03 11.36580 19 16 56.00 -17 01 03.4 16.5 N W96
0053P KC2016 03 11.37667 19 16 57.18 -17 01 00.3 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 -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 58x30s 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 (levels, crop) Remarks or comments NB: mag was originally reported using 5.2" aperture radius Observation submission date 2016 Mar 11 11h24m39s Observation modification date 2016 Mar 17 22h27m49s