257P/Catalina (Record n° 10162)
Orbital period : 7.30 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2013 Sep 23 22h43 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 9.7 " r (dist/Sun) 2.290 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.315 AU Right ascension 00 23 27.69 h m s Declination +16 44 10.7 ° ' " 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/3.8 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2013.09.23 and 24
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0257P C2013 09 23.94660 00 23 27.69 +16 44 10.7 17.1 N C10
0257P C2013 09 23.96589 00 23 27.06 +16 43 53.5 16.8 N C10
0257P C2013 09 23.98641 00 23 26.43 +16 43 34.9 17.0 N C10
0257P C2013 09 24.00845 00 23 25.73 +16 43 15.7 17.2 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1140 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.8 Filter(s) Rc (UBVRI) Camera ST8 XME Sensor CCD Sensor size 13.8 x 9.2 mm2 Sensor pixels number 1530 x 1020 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure details 40 x 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 46 ° Air mass 1.22 Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2013 Sep 24 16h06m20s Observation modification date 2013 Sep 25 15h45m03s