73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (c) (Record n° 2512)
Orbital period : 5.36 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Apr 20 20h09 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.6 m2 standard deviation 0.3 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " Right ascension 08 44 57.87 h m s Declination +31 30 56.8 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.04.20
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0073Pc C2011 04 20.83987 08 44 57.87 +31 30 56.8 17.9 N C10
0073Pc C2011 04 20.85020 08 44 58.01 +31 30 53.8 17.3 N C10
0073Pc C2011 04 20.86113 08 44 58.18 +31 30 50.8 17.7 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 254 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.6 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 123 ° Air mass 1.09 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.04 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 APE DDP Observation submission date 2011 Apr 21 01h48m21s Observation modification date 2011 Apr 21 15h08m58s