176P/LINEAR (Record n° 4983)
Orbital period : 5.71 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Oct 31 00h55 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.639 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.709 AU Right ascension 04 02 18.25 h m s Declination +21 01 43.8 ° ' " 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 2011.10.31
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0176P KC2011 10 31.03806 04 02 18.25 +21 01 43.8 18.5 N C10
0176P KC2011 10 31.04910 04 02 17.80 +21 01 42.6 18.4 N C10
0176P KC2011 10 31.05966 04 02 17.37 +21 01 41.5 18.3 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 -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2400 s Exposure details 20 x 120s Seeing 2 Moon elongation 148 ° Air mass 1.13 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 Oct 31 09h54m18s Observation modification date 2011 Nov 02 14h51m17s