237P/LINEAR (Record n° 16288)
Orbital period : 6.58 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Oct 08 18h16 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 10.2 Aperture radius used for m1 0.78 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " Tail position angle
(PA) 50 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.985 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.463 AU Right ascension 16 18 48.52 h m s Declination -16 49 37.3 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.10.08 23:47:54
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0237P KC2016 10 08.76117 16 18 48.52 -16 49 37.3 14.2 N A77
0237P KC2016 10 08.76616 16 18 49.31 -16 49 38.0 14.4 N A77
0237P KC2016 10 08.77087 16 18 49.96 -16 49 39.3 10.2 T A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 16x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Remarks or comments Bad seeing Observation submission date 2016 Oct 08 23h57m55s Observation modification date 2016 Oct 09 00h01m32s