P/2012 O3 (McNaught) (Record n° 7859)
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 deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.816 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.187 AU Right ascension 22 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 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 -30 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 3600 s Exposure details 30 X 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 131 ° Air mass 1.54 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 Nov 05 11h37m48s Observation modification date 2012 Nov 05 17h19m30s