C/2011 A3 (Gibbs) (Record n° 2697)
Orbital period : 20993.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 May 01 00h27 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.5 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.408 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.633 AU Right ascension 13 17 25.16 h m s Declination +27 48 46.2 ° ' " 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 2011.05.01
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
CK11A030 C2011 05 01.01878 13 17 25.16 +27 48 46.2 16.5 N C10
CK11A030 C2011 05 01.02980 13 17 24.82 +27 48 46.9 16.5 N C10
CK11A030 C2011 05 01.04009 13 17 24.49 +27 48 47.5 16.4 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 4 Moon elongation 141 ° Air mass 1.18 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 May 01 06h39m13s Observation modification date 2011 May 02 13h12m11s