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C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski)

Orbital period : 132.60 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Nov 16 18h02 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)19.6
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m24 "
r (dist/Sun) 9.564 AU
d (dist/Earth) 9.302 AU
Right ascension22 05 19.18 h m s
Declination+10 09 09.8 ° ' "
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 2012.11.16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
    CK12Q010 KC2012 11 16.75141 22 05 19.18 +10 09 09.8          19.6 N      C10
    CK12Q010 KC2012 11 16.78317 22 05 19.41 +10 09 03.9          19.5 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 time1200 s
Exposure details10 X 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation64 °
Air mass1.27
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 17 09h32m54s
Observation modification date2012 Nov 18 10h59m24s

(Record n° 7893)

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