C/2012 K5 (LINEAR) (Record n° 6726)
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 deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.633 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.007 AU Right ascension 18 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 type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1200 s Exposure details 10 X 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 109 ° Air mass 1.03 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Jun 17 14h25m49s Observation modification date 2012 Jun 18 11h21m32s