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P/2012 O3 (McNaught)

Orbital period : 9.78 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Nov 04 17h41 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)19.6
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.816 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.187 AU
Right ascension22 10 24.63 h m s
Declination+01 59 31.7 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.11.04
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
    PK12O030 KC2012 11 04.73665 22 10 24.63 +01 59 31.7          19.6 N      C10
    PK12O030 KC2012 11 04.76237 22 10 26.69 +01 59 53.1          19.4 N      C10
    PK12O030 KC2012 11 04.77450 22 10 27.68 +02 00 01.9          19.9 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-30 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3600 s
Exposure details30 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation131 °
Air mass1.54
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Nov 05 11h37m48s
Observation modification date2012 Nov 05 17h19m30s

(Record n° 7859)

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