C/2011 A3 (Gibbs) (Record n° 2734)
Orbital period : 20993.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 May 05 22h25 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.4 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.379 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.632 AU Right ascension 13 15 02.93 h m s Declination +27 50 53.8 ° ' " 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 2011.05.05
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
CK11A030 C2011 05 05.93369 13 15 02.93 +27 50 53.8 16.4 N C10
CK11A030 C2011 05 05.95506 13 15 02.32 +27 50 53.4 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 3 Moon elongation 107 ° Air mass 1.07 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 FC Observation submission date 2011 May 06 01h48m49s Observation modification date 2011 May 06 14h29m01s