C/2009 F2 (McNaught) (Record n° 2728)
Orbital period : 6730.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 May 04 22h55 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 6.950 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.011 AU Right ascension 15 22 07.42 h m s Declination +05 06 35.9 ° ' " 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 2011.05.04
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
CK09F020 KC2011 05 04.95515 15 22 07.42 +05 06 35.9 18.3 N C10
CK09F020 KC2011 05 04.98393 15 22 06.76 +05 06 46.4 18.2 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 2160 s Exposure details 18 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 151 ° Air mass 1.51 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 05 06h15m02s Observation modification date 2011 May 05 07h09m44s