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C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski)

Orbital period : 132.60 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Sep 15 22h02 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)19
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m26 "
r (dist/Sun) 9.532 AU
d (dist/Earth) 8.625 AU
Right ascension22 08 35.02 h m s
Declination+14 20 15.5 ° ' "
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 2012.09.15
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
    CK12Q010 KC2012 09 15.91832 22 08 35.02 +14 20 15.5          18.8 N      C10
    CK12Q010 KC2012 09 15.93352 22 08 34.76 +14 20 11.4          19.2 N      C10
    CK12Q010 KC2012 09 15.94877 22 08 34.57 +14 20 07.8          19.1 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-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3000 s
Exposure details25 X 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation158 °
Air mass1.21
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Sep 17 15h48m45s
Observation modification date2012 Sep 17 15h54m20s

(Record n° 7479)

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