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246P/NEAT

Orbital period : 8.06 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Apr 16 23h25 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)14.5
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 3.246 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.312 AU
Right ascension13 09 44.92 h m s
Declination+14 38 32.1 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.300-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.04.16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0246P         C2012 04 16.97583 13 09 44.92 +14 38 32.1          14.6 N      C10
0246P         C2012 04 16.98642 13 09 44.46 +14 38 32.6          14.5 N      C10
0246P         C2012 04 16.99683 13 09 44.01 +14 38 33.0          14.5 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60a
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1800 s
Exposure details15 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation141 °
Air mass1.20
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.5 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 LOG GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Apr 17 13h18m15s
Observation modification date2012 Apr 17 17h36m59s

(Record n° 6463)

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