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C/2012 K5 (LINEAR)

Orbital period : 17901.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Jun 17 01h38 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16.7
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.633 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.007 AU
Right ascension18 42 26.74 h m s
Declination+37 42 29.9 ° ' "
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/3 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.06.17
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
    CK12K050  C2012 06 17.06799 18 42 26.74 +37 42 29.9          16.7 N      C10
    CK12K050  C2012 06 17.07400 18 42 25.87 +37 42 39.9          16.6 N      C10
    CK12K050  C2012 06 17.08171 18 42 24.80 +37 42 50.4          16.7 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60a
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1200 s
Exposure details10 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation109 °
Air mass1.03
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Jun 17 14h25m49s
Observation modification date2012 Jun 18 11h21m32s

(Record n° 6726)

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