P/2011 Q3 (McNaught) (Record n° 4663)
Orbital period : 11.08 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Sep 22 23h53 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.8 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.389 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.388 AU Right ascension 00 04 22.97 h m s Declination -06 17 17.2 ° ' " 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 2011.09.22 et 23
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
PK11Q030 KC2011 09 22.99519 00 04 22.97 -06 17 17.2 17.8 N C10
PK11Q030 KC2011 09 23.00692 00 04 22.52 -06 17 17.6 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 120 ° Air mass 1.38 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 12h10m21s Observation modification date 2011 Sep 23 15h53m31s