C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski) (Record n° 7893)
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 deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 4 " r (dist/Sun) 9.564 AU d (dist/Earth) 9.302 AU Right ascension 22 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 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 1200 s Exposure details 10 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 64 ° Air mass 1.27 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 17 09h32m54s Observation modification date 2012 Nov 18 10h59m24s