158P/Kowal-LINEAR (Record n° 4659)
Orbital period : 11.39 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Sep 22 21h08 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 4.604 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.731 AU Right ascension 21 53 43.10 h m s Declination -15 28 54.6 ° ' " 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 2011.09.22
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0158P KC2011 09 22.88023 21 53 43.10 -15 28 54.6 18.1 N C10
0158P KC2011 09 22.89624 21 53 42.77 -15 28 56.8 18.1 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1920 s Exposure details 16 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 151 ° Air mass 2.32 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 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2011 Sep 23 12h06m58s Observation modification date 2011 Sep 23 15h50m21s