C/2011 A3 (Gibbs) (Record n° 6865)
Orbital period : 20993.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Jul 24 01h08 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.2 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 3.348 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.530 AU Right ascension 23 17 18.94 h m s Declination -21 36 58.2 ° ' " 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 2012.07.24
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
CK11A030 C2012 07 24.04738 23 17 18.94 -21 36 58.2 16.2 N C10
CK11A030 C2012 07 24.05334 23 17 18.86 -21 37 02.1 16.2 N C10
CK11A030 C2012 07 24.06071 23 17 18.80 -21 37 06.3 16.2 N C10
CK11A030 C2012 07 24.06824 23 17 18.73 -21 37 11.5 16.1 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 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 151 ° Air mass 3.62 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 Jul 24 11h10m15s Observation modification date 2012 Jul 24 19h22m28s